On Jul 23, 8:36*am, dave wrote:
On 07/22/2011 02:25 PM, wrote:

On Jul 22, 8:20 am, *wrote:
On 07/21/2011 08:04 PM, wrote:

On Jul 21, 12:56 pm, * *wrote:
Boatanchors were fun when electricity was 2 cents a Kilowatt hour. I've
had 2 [ea] R390-As, a Westinghouse branded RA-17 series, RCA 18 Mhz
receiver from the War, BC-348, etc. Got it out of my system. Still use
tubes for music.

...a Westinghouse branded RA-17 ? Are you joking ??

A RACAL radio with a Westinghouse procurement contract tag is no joke.

So Westinghouse bought it from Racal in order to re-sell it to the guv-
mint ?

R10xx/URR

* RACAL on the front panel, Westinghouse on the procurement tag. My
model had 2 front ends with common oscillators, for diversity use. Thing
weighed 90 pounds without the power supply. An extremely quiet and
sensitive receiver. Used a roll of 35mm film for the kilocycles scale.
Used about 32 tubes as I recall. First use of collett knobs ever noted
by this reporter.

From the description given here it is none other than RA153X . Made in
the UK . Westinghouse just put their name on it for the same old
reason : to chisel the guv-mint . Nothing new under the sun . I used
to have a regular issue Ra-17 . Very inconvenient tuning .Preselector
(excellent feature) . Very stable (has Wadley Loop). Very heavy .
Exceptional workmanship . It was built to be used in a lab.I just
cannot see it being hauled around by any soldier in any conflict . In
other words-- it is a monster .