[R-1051] Six pack attack

[David Wise]

That knob's probably a ten-position switch giving you 100Hz tuning increment, same as the R-1051B and up.

Some R-1051B/C six-packs are not interchangeable even though they're all 100Hz.  I forget the details but as Paul noted the consequences of misapplication are exciting.  I studied it once; I think a signal got a different purpose, and putting the pack in the wrong chassis would overload some IC input.

HTH,
Dave Wise
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From: r-1051-bounces at mailman.qth.net <r-1051-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [R-1051] Six pack attack

Mr. B has one of his T-827 listed on EBay now and looking at it can see  it has the 1000 CPS knob so I imagine that makes it the same six pack as the 1051 B/C? think only the oldest straight 1051 did not have that additional knob?

You can see the item in question at:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/NAVY-Military-Radio-T-827b-HF-Transmitter-USB-LSB-AM-CW-FSK-2-30MC/113709635486?hash=item1a799f579e:g:O7YAAOSwSv9cqAWf

If anyone is interested in one of those things he told me he would sell them for less. Looking at what's stuffed into a R-1051 and the T-827 makes you wonder just how they fit all that into the same box for the RT-618?

Question: There are tons of R-1051 receivers around, so you know a lot were deployed in large numbers. For some strange reason seeing some T-827 also but the RT-618/URC-35 from my experience just don't show up in the same numbers. Was the URC-35 a dog? Is that why you don't see them? I had one opportunity to buy one years ago and that was for a lot of money so did not do it and it went fast. The Sunair URC-92 and stuff is plentiful and cheap and at least in my experience a way better radio but it has the advantage of being ten years newer. I have owned, repaired and sold several of them along with owning several R-1051 receivers and I have a strange Harris URC-94 that I love but in years of dealing with this stuff have never owned and only saw maybe one or two URC-35 (RT-618) sets.

Ray F/KA3EKH