"Rich" wrote in message
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I found an EH Scott SLR-12-B (Navy? 'morale') receiver
(550kc-16Mc) for sale. I would like to know what ($) to offer for it
presuming good working condition. I have not been able to find much
information about this set on the internet. If you know of any EH
Scott BA resources I would appreciate if you share them with me. TIA!


I've posted a page about the Scott REE receiver from Fred Osterman's
"Shortwave Radios Past & Present" on the alt.binaries.pictures.radio group.
The REE seems very similar to your description of the SLR-12-B radio.

The circled numbers on the lower chart mean:

1 -- New price unknown
5 -- Used price unknown
6 -- Insufficent information available for a value rating

No prices, but the other info may be useful.

Here's a sales flyer I found very interesting about EH Scott and one of his
fancy civilian shortwave radios:

http://www181.pair.com/otsw/Scott.html

Frank Dresser

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:08:23 GMT, (Rich) wrote:

I found an EH Scott SLR-12-B (Navy? 'morale') receiver
(550kc-16Mc) for sale. I would like to know what ($) to offer for it
presuming good working condition. I have not been able to find much
information about this set on the internet. If you know of any EH
Scott BA resources I would appreciate if you share them with me. TIA!

There's a few pics and schematics here
http://www.schroeder-dieball.com/scottradiolabs/
but not a lot on the merchant marine sets.

regards,
Ron Hershey

In article , Ron Hershey
writes:

There's a few pics and schematics here
http://www.schroeder-dieball.com/scottradiolabs/
but not a lot on the merchant marine sets.

Beautiful photos, of sets clear back to the 201-A days, and later ones with
more chrome than a '58 Olds.

The RCH entry is a single photo of the same radio I have, with a Hammarlund or
SX-28 style dial. I believe "RCH" is also used for a slide-rule dial type
Scott.

My RCH is probably a backup comm rx, not a morale entertainment set, since it
unfortunately sacrifices the AM BC band to include two LW bands, as for marine
communications. It does provide for feeding a second audio source into its
output stage; unclear what that was used for. The audio output is a single 6F6
or 6V6 or the like, so this RX would not be driving speakers all over the ship.
73, Mike K.

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Hi,

My RCH is probably a backup comm rx, not a morale entertainment set, since it
unfortunately sacrifices the AM BC band to include two LW bands, as for marine
communications. It does provide for feeding a second audio source into its
output stage; unclear what that was used for. The audio output is a single 6F6
or 6V6 or the like, so this RX would not be driving speakers all over the ship.
73, Mike K.

You can see one installed in a Mackay communications console in the
4th ed. of THe Radio Manual by Sterling & Monroe, 1950. Pages 511 to
553 are devoted to this console, including a fold-out schematic of the
Scott receiver itself (called an SLR-F). It was paired with a Mackay
128AV (15 - 650kHz, battery-powered)

Scott made a big deal of low-radiation receivers and German
direction-finding, but it's far more likely that the low radiation was
only to avoid interference with other receivers on the ship. It's a
very crowded RF environment.

I had an SLR12 once and its dial-drive mechanism was sluggish, not
a set you'd want for band-cruising. They were after all meant to be
left in one position and not re-tuned often. The geared dial on an
RCH works like a dream, in comparison.

73, Alan

In article , Alan Douglas
adouglasatgis.net writes:

You can see one installed in a Mackay communications console in the
4th ed. of THe Radio Manual by Sterling & Monroe, 1950. Pages 511 to
553 are devoted to this console, including a fold-out schematic of the
Scott receiver itself (called an SLR-F). It was paired with a Mackay
128AV (15 - 650kHz, battery-powered)

Does this mean the RCH served as the audio output stage for the Mackay? I can
imagine a lot of military rx wer made with only "line level" or "diode load"
outputs, meant to feed RTTY decoders and the like, and the RCH wuld provide a
speaker audio driver for such rx.

Scott made a big deal of low-radiation receivers and German
direction-finding, but it's far more likely that the low radiation was
only to avoid interference with other receivers on the ship. It's a
very crowded RF environment.

True, and this is why the R390 series has such a rugged multi-tuned front end,
and well into the sorry-state era was specified for shipboard use because it
could stand up to the onboard transmitters.

I had an SLR12 once and its dial-drive mechanism was sluggish, not
a set you'd want for band-cruising. They were after all meant to be
left in one position and not re-tuned often. The geared dial on an
RCH works like a dream, in comparison.

Right, the RCH tuning is silky smooth. Too bad Scott didn't put a vernier
0-100 readout on the knob shaft for ease in returning to a station, although
the 0-200 logging scale is better than nothing. I suspect some ops may have
put a 0-100 skirted knob on that shaft and scribed an index mark on the front
panel.

Since the RCH has a BFO with pitch control, I tend to believe it was for backup
comm rather than entertainment. Lack of xtal filter makes it only a backup for
CW.


Tnx fer the commentary, Alan. 73, Mike K. AA1UK

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Hi,

You can see one installed in a Mackay communications console in the
4th ed. of THe Radio Manual by Sterling & Monroe, 1950. Pages 511 to
553 are devoted to this console, including a fold-out schematic of the
Scott receiver itself (called an SLR-F). It was paired with a Mackay
128AV (15 - 650kHz, battery-powered)

Does this mean the RCH served as the audio output stage for the Mackay? I can
imagine a lot of military rx wer made with only "line level" or "diode load"
outputs, meant to feed RTTY decoders and the like, and the RCH wuld provide a
speaker audio driver for such rx.

If I'm reading the text correctly, position 2 was not used, but the
"Mixed" mode fed time signals to check the chronometer.

73, Alan

Thanks to all for taking the time to reply. The historic background
from Biz & Bill puts this set in some context for me. Frank, thanks
for posting the Ostermann page to the binaries. Ron I appreciate the
website resource. If you are interested I have posted a photo of the
Scott , as well as some other items I found, at the following link;

http://home.att.net/~richs_radios/Whats_New.html

Also a friend supplied me with a large Scott advertisement via email.
I cut out the image of a Scott 'marine model' set and posted it next
to the SLR for comparison.

What a great source of information/history you all have provided. This
was a third party transaction. Sadly the primary party (the owner?)
called off the deal. It appears he has discovered another buyer (?).
It seems I missed my chance and (sadly) won't see any of these items
any time soon. Life goes on... Thanks to all for the assistance and
especially the history - great stuff! Any additional history is
appreciated and encouraged since there does not seem to be much
recorded except in the minds of the survivors.