Thanks to the thunderous lack of response from this newsgroup, I have
moved my rare STR-5 "strip receiver" to the big auction site.

A real cold war relic, the STR-5 was made in TMC's Ottawa plant, serial
number 4.

It has a door on the front, where you plug in a module that sets the
frequency of the radio. The module has a crystal oven, and room for two
sets of crystals (the second channel requires an optional second
receiver IF board which was not installed on this radio). I imagine
they had a rack nearby, keeping these modules in hot-standby
temperature mode, and would swap them out with the peacetime modules
should the need arise.

BTW, it is Technical MateriEL Corporation (spelling). They adopted the
British spelling of Material.

"radioman390" wrote in message
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Thanks to the thunderous lack of response from this newsgroup, I have
moved my rare STR-5 "strip receiver" to the big auction site.




Apparently rare means he only has one.

It does not have anything to do with the number available elsewhere.





A real cold war relic, the STR-5 was made in TMC's Ottawa plant, serial
number 4.

It has a door on the front, where you plug in a module that sets the
frequency of the radio. The module has a crystal oven, and room for two
sets of crystals (the second channel requires an optional second
receiver IF board which was not installed on this radio). I imagine
they had a rack nearby, keeping these modules in hot-standby
temperature mode, and would swap them out with the peacetime modules
should the need arise.

BTW, it is Technical MateriEL Corporation (spelling). They adopted the
British spelling of Material.

On 1 Oct 2005 08:37:20 -0700, "radioman390"
wrote:

Thanks to the thunderous lack of response from this newsgroup, I have
moved my rare STR-5 "strip receiver" to the big auction site.

IOW, crybaby hopes the door won't hit him in the ass on his
way out.



A real cold war relic, the STR-5 was made in TMC's Ottawa plant, serial
number 4.

It has a door on the front, where you plug in a module that sets the
frequency of the radio. The module has a crystal oven, and room for two
sets of crystals (the second channel requires an optional second
receiver IF board which was not installed on this radio). I imagine
they had a rack nearby, keeping these modules in hot-standby
temperature mode, and would swap them out with the peacetime modules
should the need arise.

BTW, it is Technical MateriEL Corporation (spelling). They adopted the
British spelling of Material.