[Premium-Rx] Racal RA1795 build dates?

[Al Klase]

John,

You might try checking the date codes on the IC's. E.g., 7831 = the 31st 
week of 1978. Look around for the youngest circuit.

Regards,
Al

On 1/9/2014 2:07 AM, John Nelson wrote:
> Having recently acquired an RA1795, I'm trying to find out approximately
> when it was manufactured. The drawing number of 51-3799 doesn't correspond
> with that of either the 1795 or 1795B in the Racal master catalogue although
> this example is an RA1795 SPECIAL according to the data plate and the
> squelch/COR functionality isn't quite as described in the manual. The serial
> number is 15x which suggests it's fairly early unless 'specials' were
> differently numbered.
>
> Anyone know the history of these receivers?
>
> 73 John
> GW4FRX
>
>
>
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Al Klase – N3FRQ
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