[MRCA] Receiver and Net Control

[Scott Johnson]

Ray-

I have a very nice Torn E.B.  with covers, cables, battery box and vibrator.
Mine is earlier, and has the meter as well.  It has no corrosion whatsoever,
as I believe it has been in Arizona since 1945, when it was brought home as
a war trophy.  As for the alloys, all the German equipment from that era had
high zinc content, including Aircraft sets.  It is quite hard to find
examples that don't have severe corrosion, the zinc oxide occupies many
times the volume of the metallic zinc, so it literally blows assemblies
apart.  In my opinion, the Torn E.B. is the best portable TRF set made in
the WWII era.  The RV2P800 incidentally,  is a 2V filament Pentode, with a
mU of 800.  It populated most battery sets, as the RV12P2000 did aircraft
and mobile equipment.  My little Torn, along with a HA 5 K 39c HF
transceiver, are the last of my WWII German collection, as I donated all of
my avionics radios to the Pima Air museum in Tucson, AZ.

 

Scott V. Johnson W7SVJ

5111 E. Sharon Dr.

Scottsdale, AZ 85254-3636

H (602) 953-5779

C (480) 550-2358

scottjohnson1 at cox.net <mailto:scottjohnson1 at cox.net> 

scott.johnson at ieee.org <mailto:scott.johnson at ieee.org> 

 

From: mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf
Of Ray Fantini
Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2019 9:45 AM
To: MRCA at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [MRCA] Receiver and Net Control

 

This is the Torn E.b. receiver that I was talking about this morning on the
net. This one was one of the last of the early 43 production so it has the
meter and is not built of the cheap pot metal. Also a picture of a tube a
RV2P800, It's the same tube used thorough the radio. It works great on all
the bands from LF up to the bottom of forty, just interesting learning curve
with a TRF regen receiver.

 

Able Archer 83 will be coming up on November the 9th and with all this talk
about getting others to do the Net control I would like to do Net control on
that Saturday from Davidsonville using the W3A call.

 

Are their any thoughts from the rest of the group? I would be a bit south
for the regular group but would be running the mutt with the GRC-106 and
using an inverted V so I think I can do good coverage.

 

Ray F/KA3EKH

 

 

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