[MRCA] Stuff at Dayton/Xenia and other thoughts

[Ray Fantini]

The dreaded SRR-13! Imagin that was the solution for doing SSB with that stuff?
Myselfe would like to get one of those PRC-40 sets just to channel up on 146.52 and have a huge primitive radio. Completely pointless but appeals to the darker side of my personality.
Speaking of such have finally finished my WS-19 Mark 5, the radio started life as a British not the US knockoff WS-19 that I bought at Hamvention last year. It was a real basket case, came with a box of broken parts and assorted knobs and the like. Very hacked, and every wire in the radio suffered what a lot of the British stuff did with age becoming useless because if you touch it or look at it funny what remained of the insulation would fall off.
So, I decided to strip the radio down, replaced almost every capacitor and all the point-to-point connections and got the receiver going, then being no fan of the WS-19 mixing scheme that results in an annoying image  and a output tank that somehow had the tank located in a remote variometer rebuilt the transmitter with crystal control and installed a output tank in the PA along with T/R relay where the UHF radio once lived and now I have the WS-19 Mark 5, or Mach Five, just like Speed Racer! Lot of effort went into this project, not along the lines of doing some hundred-point restoration that others would pick apart and tell me how I don't have this or that correct but as a radio that I can use this year at Hamvention and that in many ways is fun to use and better then if you just did the stock WS-19
No good reason, just wanted to do it. And I love the patina of the case. I recently won a new Icom HF transceiver, Think it's an IC-7300 or something like that with all the SDR processing, auto tuner and everything else, it's still in the box. No real desire to use it. But with the Mutant WS-19 #5, I can't wait to get that running in the field.  I am planning on having it on the air at Hagerstown MVPA this weekend.

Ray F/KA3EKH





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Subject: Re: [MMRCG] Stuff at Dayton/Xenia



What would the CV-657A be paired with, given its 200 kHz IF?





73 Eugene W2HX/4
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From: MMRCG at groups.io <MMRCG at groups.io> On Behalf Of Nick K4NYW via groups.io
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2026 7:07 PM
To: MMRCG at groups.io
Subject: [MMRCG] Stuff at Dayton/Xenia



Things that look complete but untested and have been sitting on a shelf for too long for me to believe I’ll ever get around to them….

- A couple of R-390A rcvrs with meters.

- Several fixed frequency Navy receivers like this

https://www.navy-radio.com/rcvrs/images/frr31-01.jpg

- TMC sideband adapter CV-657A

- Crosby-Teletronics facsimile converter

- Navy OCT RTTY monitor

- several PRC-40AX

- USM-118B cardmatic tube tester with cards

- Some Teletype manuals and parts

- some other never round-to-it things



Depends on what fits into the van...

Plan to set up on Thursday. Prices will start cheap and go down from there on Friday-Saturday

I'll be set up with friends at spaces 8326-8330 (flea market inside
the race track)
Actually I’ll mostly be wandering around looking at other people’s
stuff so text if you want to meet up. My cell number will be posted on
a Navy Radio sign at the spot.




Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com<http://www.navy-radio.com/>

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