I would like to buy a working R1155 receiver in the USA if anyone ever has one to sell, with or without power supply. I would even consider a non working one if it's in relatively good, complete condition.
73 Bry AF4K Best regards - Bry Carling > On Feb 5, 2014, at 6:29 PM, Robert Nickels <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2/5/2014 7:51 PM, Rob Atkinson wrote: >> the audio quality coming from that single 6K6 output stage in the CR88. > I have to agree with you on that, Rob, plus it gives me an excuse to tell my > AR-88 story ;-) I got the AR-88 for "free", but had to pay the shipping > cost from a boys school in the UK, which obviously wasn't anywhere cheap. > This was back in the very early days of the original BA List, and the seller > indicated that the receiver had seen service in the codebreaking effort of > WWII. So, without a shred of additional proof, my own imagination has > always conjured up a vision of it once being operated by the skilled ladies > of Station X...feeding intercepts to the codebreakers that helped win the war. > > But to my ears, nothing quite equals the sound from an S-20R. Not because > it's anything special, but because it's the first shortwave receiver I ever > heard, and you can't un-make that initial impression. While I was mostly > confined to using headphones to avoid annoying the grown-ups it belonged to, > I well remember the harsh buzz of the jammers, shortwave channel-marker > recordings, WWV (when it was still in Beltsville, MD), and of course hams > talking on AM in their own strange and exciting language. > > 73, Bob W9RAN > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Boatanchors mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > List Administrator: Duane Fischer, W8DBF > ** For Assistance: dfischer at usol.com ** > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html _______________________________________________ Boatanchors mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors
