[MRCG] Scott receiver ID needed?

[Bart Lee]

It looks to me like a Scott SLR-M = Special Low Radiation, encased in
copper, a great radio. SLR to keep enemy subs for detecting the BFO --
maybe...

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On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 2:22 PM Verne Anderson via MRCG <mrcg at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> Help needed to identify the Scott receiver next to President Harry
> Truman’s desk 1945.  Was this a common receiver used on a Navy Cruiser
> during WWII for VIP State Rooms?  Was Truman heading home from Europe?  See
> caption under picture.
>
> Verne
> W6LPM
>
>
>
>                                 President Harry S. Truman, with a radio at
> hand, reads reports of the first atomic bomb raid on Japan while en route
> home aboard a cruiser.
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