Upon the date 11:47 PM 10/16/99 -0500, Lawrence LeMay said something like:
>> Upon the date 09:11 PM 10/16/99 -0500, Lawrence LeMay said something like:
>> >Anyone want a WWII navy radio reciever? 70 pounds of iron, tubes, and
>> >vernier tuning. Shortwave bands.
>> >
>> >I'm not shipping it, and i'm getting real serious about tossing it out.
>> >SO, you need to be in Minneapolis, or coming by this area reasonably soon.
>
>Ok, first off it looks like Michael Grigoni wants it, so unless this thing
>is the Holy Grail of WWII memoriabilia, I assume I'll be giving it to
>him.
Good! Go for it Mike. Hardly a Holy Grail but it's a good boatanchor
example from WWII era. I have an RBL-3 which looks very similar but
receives 15 KHz to 600 KHz (VLF, or Very Low Frequency). Yours is a
military version of National's commercial NC-100XA and receives frequencies
from 540 KHz to 30 MHz, basically a shortwave rec'vr. Wells-Garder built
mine too from a design that the contractor, National, had made for the War
effort.
>
>> Larry, give us more info. What is the type designation found on the metal
>> ID tag? Any other info you can give to help ID this unit?
>
>I just took 4 photos of the unit. These are at the max resolution and minimal
Kinda dark, but somewhat readable by me as I'd seen RAO's before.
Thanks for the heads up although it's drastically off-topic and that Mike
is able to save it from the trash barrel. Although it's rather seedy
looking apparently from storage it should restore to a very nice set with a
lot of TLC.
Regards, Chris
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Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
Jamestown, NY USA cfandt_at_netsync.net
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Received on Sun Oct 17 1999 - 08:02:15 BST