[R-390] OT: Other Radios You Like

[Sheldon Daitch]

Moving into the land of the relatively scarce.

The RCA SSB-3A receiver.  Two racks, transistorized
at the 1200T and 1300T units, but nearly every thing foward to
the antenna is still tubed.  The 400 unit has a Collins PTO, but
the circuits for harmonic generation are solid state, as well.

AFC so it locks to the pilot carrier of the received signal.

Dual diversity built in, but not capable of frequency diversity,
only space diversity with two antennas.  Very good audio, if
working right.

If anyone is an IEEE member, this link will go to an article
discussing the earlier version of the SSB-3 receiver, the all
tube unit.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/10933/4051933/04051959.pdf?isnumber=4051933&prod=JNL&arnumber=4051959&arSt=1782&ared=1788&arAuthor=Becken%2C+E.D.

73
Sheldon
WA4MZZ