The Wireless Set No 19
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- The infamous Wireless Set No 19. Used by the British military in WW2 the WS19 was a lovely piece of kit installed in tanks and other vehicles. The 19 set was aso used by the CCF, Combined Cadet Force, during the 1960s and 70s, on spot frequencies... Delta Oscar, Tango Golf etc.
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You're a year younger than me and as a 13 year old lad into radio I well remember these sets. On the outskirts of my local town, Newcastle-under-Lyme, there used to be a shop called "Ham Radio" which was absolutely rammed full of old ex-army surplus radios, transceivers, tank aerials etc......it was a real Aladdins Cave! I often used to wander there and spend hours staring at stuff I couldn't buy because I had no money and when I begged my Dad to let me have a 19 set he said, "i'm not having any of that junk in this house!!" So I had to keep dreaming! The shop owner, Sid Chadwick, smoked cigars and he always had various radio sets running and I will always remember the distinct smell of hot valves and cigar smoke!
We had a similar shop here, army surplus with loads of gear and that amazing smell. Happy days! I miss them. The owner was large, smoked a lot and love a few pints on Sunday lunch time in the pub.
These were widely advertised in the mid to late 1960's in Exchange and Mart and sold in various grades. Less than £4 would get you one. I was about 11 at the time but just couldn't get enough money to get one. Still fancy one today!
Hi again Ray. My husband Peter has a wireless # 19 that he got from the Canadian Army Militia stationed at Sydney, Nova Scotia. They used # 19's for quite a while after WW2 and in later years were just getting rid of them. We have the Atlantic Ocean between us which unfortunately prevents you from helping us get it operational. As I said before you would be a wonderful neighbor, you should know we love all your stories. You are one of a kind and we have learned so much from you. Much more interesting than TV. May you continue to have a long and blessed life. Mary and Peter.
Hi Mary and Peter, it's nice to hear from you. Thanks so much for your lovely comments. I wish I were a neighbour of yours! I hope you manage to get the 19 set working. Cheers and all the best, Ray.
I used to have one of those, back in the 60's when I was as a kid. I had a "den" above the garage for all my tinkering with electronics. I had given a Taylor valve tester and loads of books for different valves. Some of the bases ive never seen before! Unfortunately someone took out the No 19 transmitting valves, before I had it given.
The radio worked well and I had a long antenna hooked onto the street light at the bottom of our drive. I managed to solder the speaker wires directly onto the sticking out pins.
Mine was a posh version as it had a mains metal box with the big socket dangling out of it, which plugged into the top pins. Hours of fun listening around the world. I remember tuning in the Radio North Sea International on their short wave broadcasts.
I wonder what happened to it? Probably went to the skip when I left home.
@@TimHollingworth Hi Tim, great to hear from you. I had several 19 sets back in the old days. I spent hours modifying them and using them on various pirate radio frequencies. I had to build my own power supplies as they came with 12 V units. Like you, I often wonder what happened to them. All the best, Ray.
Hello Ray. Love your radio channel. Taking the radio home on your bike seat ...did the same thing in 1975 here in Cornwall Ontario with a buddy. Awesome. Take care. Mike VE3XLF
Hi Mike, it’s good to hear from you. I had a couple of Canadian wireless sets No 19. They were great days! Cheers, Ray.
Excellent radio Ray & thank you for sharing , the radio itself is built like a tank !.
It certainly is like a tank!
A few years ago, I went on a cadet corps camp as an assistant, as my son was a cadet. The cadets were out playing soldier while we are prepping food etc. they were using a 19 set even then. Aus army surplus of course!
Excellent! They were and still are great radios.
Your vide take my back in the happy 60s . The VHF unit was easy to modyfi to 144Mhz a 30pf Phillips trimmer. Thanks for the great video.
I remember trying to get the VHF unit working… can’t recall it working.
Hello Ray, your clip really takes me back to the mid 60's when I had my No.19 set. I can remember that Practical Wireless did a series on converting the set with an added RF valve a BFO. And PSU. As you said "happy days" just wished I'd kept it!
I still have one of these somewhere, Cyrillic lettering but made in Canada. It covered down to medium wave 200m, receive only of course :) ,and could do Top Band to Forty, when I was a schoolboy. One of these days I will dig it out. Thanks for the memories, Ray. Jon G4MCU
Hi Jon, thanks for your comment. They were amazing pieces of kit, my first ever transmitter. All the best,
Ray.
I was an apprentice at 33 Base ( later Central) Workshop REME Newark between 1957 and 1963 and spent many happy hours setting these up after refurbishment. Sometimes they arrived for refurb with sand in them, sometimes with control labels in Russian. Brings back many memories.
mike whitehead Excellent, thanks for commenting. Happy days!
Nice one. I operated one when I was on a Cromwell tank in the RHA 1952. I don't know what Mk. it was but it had a variometer mounted on the top. Memories. Thanks
Hi Ron, thanks for your comment. It's nice to hear from someone who actually used this set in a tank. Cheers, Ray.
Many good old memories at boarding school (RHS 68 -73) using the call sign 7A and being a member of the CCF using a 19 Set on the ACF/CCF network, later graduating to a 62 Set. Coupled to a 50 long wire managed to talk over distances very occasionally up to 200 miles when the manual quoted distance was 25 miles. Even during extremely bad conditions with the Wood Pecker etc. the sets performed well considering their output. With all the interference on HF in those days it was extremely difficult.
Thanks for recalling my memories. John G4PKM
Hi John, thanks for your comments. I remember listening to the CCF, happy days!
I used a Mk111 WS19 in 1960s on 160 to 40 metres ( and from my school on the CCF net @ 5.33 etc Mhz AM ). I retuned the VHF 'B' set to 145 Mhz 2 metres amateur band and used that for both receive and transmit of FM speech. Essentially it was a super-regenerative single valve receiver circuit on receive, and a voice modulated variable frequency free running oscillator on transmit. Amazingly it worked quite well for cross-town QSOs on 145 Mhz 🙂
I never did get the B set working properly. Well done! 5.335MHz Delta Oscar... Great days! Cheers, Ray.
My older brother and his friend had 19 sets, they used them for communication between each house, he also had a big pack radio that he could communicate to the 19 sets at home, they made such a nuisance of themselves with these radios that i remember spotting a van with a large antenna on the roof nearby that i pedalled rapidly home to tell him about it, he shut the things off as the van came slowly down the street and passed the house by.
Excellent story! It brought back so many memories,. thanks!
Happy days indeed. Unfortunately, the Guppo took mine, along with my AR88D Bah! Keep the videos coming please!!!!
Happy days, indeed! More videos on the way.
Wow. That brings it all back. You knew a lot more about radio then than I did at the time. I too was in the CCF and saw 19 sets being used, then a little later saw them being advertised for sale - army surplus, "with the transmitter stage disabled" Oh well, what the heck ... I sent off my pocket money savings and low and behold a 19 set (with Russian lettering) arrived - much to my father's amusement - he had no idea what it was. Anyhow, the 'transmitter disablement' turned out to be the 807 pulled out of its socket! Woo-hoo. Mine had the motor power supply so a car battery was procured along with a trickle charger which gave me about an hour! Now I'm not saying I did anything illegal of course but let's just say Tom Jones's "It's Not Unusual" got an extra airing. I called a mate about 5 miles away, he had a really nice Murphy radiogram with short wave. He tuned in and called his Mum - "that's Stephen!" "Don't be stupid! Get him to do a request then!" One phone call later, a request for "Sparky the Budgie" in Mitcham was also a 'first'. Thank you so much for the stories.
Thanks for your interesting post. They were great days of learning and pioneering and I miss them. I still tune around the short wave bands but there's nothing much of interest anymore. I'll have to fire up my 19 set when I get time. Good fun! Cheers, Ray.
When I was a youngster these were still being dismantled for parts, I remember using a rotary converter from one of these to power a mains soldering iron from a car battery. I was under the impression that mine was 24 or 28v rather than 12v, I had a lot of rotary converters, most were ex aircraft 28v, fantastic pieces of engineering.
Great stuff, I really miss those happy days!
This radio harkens me back to the days in the 60's when I got my ham novice ticket. My Uncle, who was a ham already, & I went to one of the military surplus stores in the Boston area & picked up a 2 meter rig. It had separate receiver & transmitter boxes. It came from a US aircraft from WWII. We modified it to work the Amateur Radio 2 meter spectrum. It was CW only. Novice holders couldn't use phone anyway.
Love your WWII transceiver! Never heard of model 19 myself. A fine rig!
Thanks!
73's
Tom
After listening to your stories I want one of these. Spent alot of time in Haywards Heath, not that it means a thing but there you go. Cheers.
My daughter lives in Haywards Heath! You'll find 19 sets on ebay from time to time... not cheap, though. Cheers, Ray.
Brings back memories. I had one many years ago that I used as a receiver. I stripped out the TX section as I did not have a TX licence and used it with a front end variable frequency converter. I think I modified just about every section in the radio - whether it worked any better by the end didn't matter - it gave me lost of experience in building and experimenting. I have very fond memories of it.
They were fantastic radios and they had so many uses back in those days. They gave many people hours of fun. Cheers, Ray.
Ray, lots of Army Cadet Forces still have these not in use but stuck in a store. When I was serving in the 80’s I got hold of five of these and gave them to the Royal Signals museum. Speak around local ACF units and you may be lucky and find some parts or even whole stations.
Interesting point. Maybe I'll have a scout around and see what I can find.
I was ccf in the 70s. Don't remember being illegal to talk to us. We used to set up a base over a weekend and we were given k rations. I was happy being homeless at the time. I remember picking up Elton John song for guy. I was only 17 at the time. Our 19 was was different the fan kicked in when you pressed ptt. Where are your loading coils? Great video.
Happy days!
Very nice radio...I used to have an old WWII era US Army Signal Corp set... 25 plus years ago I believe it was a BC-348J...Thanks for the video...
Hi Ray. Very interesting set. Thank you for sharing. Bobby
Ray,
Of course you didn't speak to those fisherman! These sets must have been such fun back in the day, wish I had been this interested in radios earlier. The amount of E-caps inside that receiver is unbelievable, at least that's what stuck out at me! Should be a fun restoration. Some elbow grease will have it looking splendid!
Dylan
Hi Ray, great video. I have never seen one a 19 set before. I started AM Dx'ing in about 1965 using my dad's Oceanic radio in the lounge room in our house in Sydney NSW Australia. We had a long wire antenna going around the lounge room along the picture rail. We actually recorded some MW DX on a reel to reel recorder in 1966, which included 570kHz 2YA Wellington New Zealand and this was later transferred to cassette tape for preservation, as the reel tape had started to deteriorate due to age in recent years. as far as I know, it is the oldest DX recording of MW radio made from the Australian mainland in existence. Anyway, take care. Robert.
They covered 2 to 8mHz in two ranges. A nice piece of kit.
@Ray Heffer yes good days, I am still toying with doing a project with 807s, my late father (G3MNO) left me a huge collection of them. One 19 set he owned went to a museum, it had an "interesting" serial number and was rather too nice to break up for parts. I did have quite a few of those carbon microphones.. but that was probably a long time ago!
hi ray from cross the pond. wonderfull presentation of your 19!! I have a few sets that were military grade. a hammalund rgb-2 that was bult for the navy wich is a 129 . I think is is from the early 50s. needs a little tlc, but the frount panel is mint with all the signal corps plates. and a hallicrafters re-1 troop moral boster set that is a 3 way portable having some power supply issues. but all there and looks great!! and, I joined your apprentice vid so I am learning!! thanks again !ed
We were stuck with playing 'squaddies' on Friday afternoons at school. (CCF). I tried to get into the radio section but the guys there were very possessive and only let their best mates in. I do remember one of the 'elite' members' mantras that was chanted behind the closed door of the RT room for minutes on end sometimes: "Delta-Oscar-Delta-Oscar-Delta-Oscar". It puzzled me at the time, but now I know. Even though I have spent many years installing and commissioning radio systems as a job, it never occurred to me to ask!
+nlo114 It's great to hear from you. I loved the CCF days on 5335 M/cs, although I wan't licensed to use Delta Osca etc. happy days, indeed! Cheers, Ray.
That set is a fantastic piece of work. Thanks for the demo.
good video. in fact right now i am listening to Nick VE3OWV on 40 m using his 19, running 5 watts and q5 s9 here near Pgh pa. again nice to see and hear...
I think our sets were well past their 'best before' date. Like a lot of our equipment then. I was in Germany and am thankful that the Cold War didn't erupt. If it had we would have been in deep brown stuff.Thanks again from Thailand.
THIS IS MY FAVOURT SET. IT IS VERY RUGGED AND PRECISE DESIGN. I HAVE A FEW SETS. ONE SET IS JUST UNUSED AND STILL SHINING.
Excellent!
Very interesting. I love those old transmitters! Thanks for posting.
Thanks, James. Cheers, Ray.
Operated one of these in the army in 1953/5 in the days of national service.
Excellent! This must bring memories flooding back. Cheers, Ray.
I never got to buy one of these sets but I remember seeing them advertised in the pages of Practical Wireless circa 1957! for just a couple of pounds. They're somewhat more expensive now.
You certainly rang a bell for me when you said you started work in the Radio trade, 1966 for £2 - 10s per week. Me too but a wee bit earlier in 1960. Boy those were exciting days!
John Brown thanks John, glad it brought back memories. Cheers, Ray.
My late father had many 19 sets over the years, the very last one had an interesting serial number so was gifted to the RAF museum. As a kid I loved playing with the dynomotors from them...
g0fvt the dynamotors were excellent. They are rare now.
Radio Workshop I seem to remember running a small soldering from one of the dynamotors on 12v, not highly useful when you are too young to have a car.
I wired s small dynamotor up in my car and ran my electric razor from it. It was before battery razors so people were amazed to see me shaving while waiting at the traffic lights.
.Brings back great memories of my clandestine operations in the dimly lit garden shed.Happy Days :)
Happy days in the shed! I remember them well. Cheers, Ray.
In 1968 I saved up my pocket money and eventually sent off my Postal Order for £3/19/6d to J.Bull (Electrical) Croydon for a 19 set, and they returned my P.O. as they were out of stock, so I went out and bought Hendrix's "Axis Bold As Love", which took me off in a kind of different direction.....
Axis Bold As Love! My favourite!
Interesting video on the NO 19 set and great stories to go with it as always. Best wishes for 2019. Happy New Year Ray 73 M0DAD
m0dad thanks!
Hi Ray just discovered your channel, thanks for sharing this rare radio I’ve just saw this radio in a movie I’m watching called His kinda woman 1951 and the first 5 minutes of the movie the gentleman is seated at this radio transmitter very very unusual looking radio, also read this was use as a radio for tanks is that right? Glad you posted your video looking forward to a review of it working! Thanks again.
Great to hear from you. Quite a few old films show the 19 set, along with other gear. It was used in tanks, armoured vehicles and as a base station. Cheers for now, Ray.
We had one with a rotary transformer that spooled-up whenever we hit 'send'. It made a lovely noise. You could hear anybody else who was using rotary transformers as they were obvious. We used it to run a pirate radio station (briefly) called Radio Samantha, from Radio 4C. It is funny how absorbing it was setting up networks. I think the record was about 40 other stations. Hullo all stations Four Charlie. Hullo all stations Four Charlie. Net now. Net now. (Pause, sending carrier wave only). Then Hullo all stations radio check over. Fingers crossed and there would be responses.
Exchanging QSL cards proved that the contacts had been made, which we received printed up with that station's call sign and a record of our signal strength as their received it. I think the maximum possible value was '10'. These came in the post, eg from 38 Bravo (Isle of Man). We used a big two-masted di-pole ariel, though the aluminium poles were difficult to erect without bending them. (They came in sections which slotted into each other up to about fifty foot.) A portable petrol generator set charged the batteries. We also had two 62 sets, four or five 31 sets and about eight 88 sets, the 31s and 88 sets being short range FM. Good friends spent hours at 'Signals' without having to say anything meaningful! Di pole ariels struck me as very interesting: half the ariel wire was earthed and the other half was live.
Later sets were crystal calibrated (C 12 sets) whereas out attempts to find the right frequency with a 19 or 62 set were a bit approximate!
Thanks for the interesting info. I had a 62 set, and I loved it! All my old gear has long since gone, sadly, as have the good old days.. Cheers, Ray.
Great video Ray, I had three of them the last one was made for Russia and in as new condition, think I got £85 for it at a radio rally in the 1980s.
The first one I had came from Relda Radio on the Tottenham Court Road in the early sixties ! Anyone remember them?
Thanks Ray, yes popular with UK hams. Got mine from Purley & District radio club along with a rather mysterious "B2" Rx that I found out much later was a WWII spy/resistance jobbie. Both easily converted to 160m for chatting among those of us who leaned towards "musical" radio on Sundays. Incidentally, the fort-based 'pirates' used the 19 set for fort-to-shore comms. Even in darkest Surrey I occasionally picked up messages e.g. "Run out of fags" or one I recall from Radio City; "We need toilet paper urgently!". Happy days.
Hi Phil, run out of fags... Great stuff! There's not much pirate activity going on these days, which is a shame. I do miss those heady days. Cheers, Ray.
Ah, PYE, that is a name almost gone these days. I used to have a few tank aerials, I met a guy that had restored an old Jeep and had a radio the lot, but he didn't have an aerial. I can't remember what he had stuck up for an aerial, but it didn't look right. So I said to him "I have got an old tank aerial up in the loft, you can have it". I went home and up in the loft and couldn't find it.
I have since moved house and thought it was bound to turn up as they do, but it didn't! I think I had at least four of them, so it is a mystery where they went to. Shame really, the guy had the big isolator and a big spring for it, just didn't have the aerial. So I had to disappoint him, which was a shame as I had no real use for them, well not all of them anyway and he was welcome to one. Another nice video Ray, thank-you.
Thanks! Cheers, Ray.
i had one in the mid 1970s but let it go ! like everything else in my life !
I've let things go in the past which I now regret. Never mind. Cheers, Ray.
I paid £2.50 in 1974. it was my first attempt at pirate radio before I learned how to use 6146 and 807 to build my own with a crystal.
Excellent!
Mine was a Russian version, never left the US.
The VHF Regen receiver I never heard a thing !
Thanks for the video.
Lee, WA8QFE
I never heard anything on VHF either, Lee. Happy days!
Best 73, WA8QFE
You think that one looks rough? Mine has rust on the front panel, knob screws rusted and stuck, slow motion drive not working. I had a lot of work to do on it to get it working. See my article in Practical Wireless, June 2017 for details. One C.W. QSO with a friend on 40m who later said I was drifting. Another QSO on 5.262 MHz and no report of drift. As expected, better stability on the lower frequencies.
Not able to do much now as QRM from a B.T. broadband telephone line radiating since December and B.T. refuse to take responsibility.
Bill, G4GHB.
Bill Kitchen thanks, that’s interesting. I really must get round to building a power supply for mine. Cheers, Ray.
I bought mine in the Tottenham Court Road in the mid sixties. I ran it in my Austin A40 Devon using a Dyna-something 12 volt to 250 volt converter. Never had much in the way of success but it was fun. I must have sold it or given it away long ago. There was Government surplus stuff everywhere in those days.
Excellent! There were 19 sets available from so many shops in those days. Cheers, Ray.
just got mine today MKII w/psu and cords, also a calibrator, now to figure out what to do and how to with it. like to use it on 40 meter, thank you for your vids
Good luck with your 19 set. It's a lovely piece of kit. Cheers, Ray.
A lot of my high end gear to this day I regret selling it off.
i'm glad i found your video, it's very interesting, i have a full kit with headphones with the hand squeeze mic, i'm doing some research on these because i got it from my Grandad who was in the British Navy in the ww2 period, and its been sat in the loft for about 13 years and i just got it out to dust it off and see what i can do with it, you say you have a different meter in yours well funny enough i need to look at mine because i need to put in another o-ring because of the other one crumbling, but other wise it seems ok with no rust or anything. thanks for the upload it was good to watch
Dj Morgan Glad you found the video useful. Good luck with your 19 set, it's a lovely radio. Cheers, Ray.
Of more interest tome, is that an R1155 behind you? My first receiver 😎
In the 1950's an R1155 was our domestic radio.
I think I remember the article. I wish I'd kept all my old gear. Oh well, not to worry.
An excellent receiver. I think I’ve made a video on the R1155.
Hey, it would be cool to have an 360 View of your work shop ? 73 Alain
Good idea, I’ll see what I can do.
I remember the day my 19 set was seized by the men from the GPO ! Such fun - how my dad laughed when he had to pay my fine later on..
+Alex McKenna Hi Alex, I also had various encounters with the GPO. Happy days! Cheers, Ray.
+Radio Workshop - I had the dreaded Stanley Smith and Mr Gotts :-) They were horrified by my RF stage - on one raid - made of 2 upturned Oxo tins, each with 3 DET-20s on board, heated by a Hornby-Dublo 12v controller... The VFO was an old Co-op mains radio... I expect it all ended up in some Black Museum of horrific seized TXs.. The ATU involved wires round a loo-roll core..
Excellent! I remember building biscuit tin transmitters. My Man was Mr Doulton ... scary!
+Alex McKenna Ah yes, the Holy Trinity. Eric Gotts, Victor Frisbee & Baby Brian Williams. You're BUSTED!
Robert Johnson Nice one!
Great little videos there mate , you brought alot of Memorys for me watching .
About 35 years ago ,we use to operate the old us army backpack radios ,and NO COMMENT < lol use to have alot of fun ...the good old days for sure ....73 from Australia ps do you have Facebook ?
Excellent, glad you like the videos. Thanks for your comments. Cheers, Ray.
Looking for the power supply :(
I got one several weeks ago, a Mark 3 British set and what a lot of work needed. It's very tatty but I don't mind. I had to re-wind two coils, replace 4 leaky capacitors, replace the NET switch as it was sparking to earth, BFO switch wired wrong and the coax not connected. Unfortunately the slow motion drive is not working and the screw completely rusted in. I put a BNC socket on as all my gear has BNC and so didn't require drilling out larger. Still low audio when on C.W. so I think I need to look at the filter.
The transmitter is working on C.W. with 250 Volts to give 6 Watts on 7 MHz. I use the same inverter but to try MCW and RT it needs a negative earth supply not to chassis.
Hi Bill, thanks for the info, all very interesting. Mine's rather tatty but it's not a major problem. I really must finish the power supply and get it going. Cheers, Ray.
OK, Hi Ray. I took the inverter out of a Pye Cambridge and use it on both receive and tx., as yet not tried out on air because I've been trying to sort out the low audio on it but could use it on it's RT or MCW position on rx and switch on the NET switch.
Bill, G4GHB.
Hi Bill, I think the transmitter HT supply should be in the order of 600 Volts.
Yes, Ray, the info.I have says 540 Volts.
Actually I like QRP so the 6 Watts is plenty.
What was that radio ,orignal purpose military ,or airplane .
Ron Thompson it was used in tanks and armoured vehicles.
I got sick of HAME and went to pirate instead :3
how is the text put on for the knobs etc?
I believe they were transfers.
I have a couple questions, if anybody out there has the time to answer me. First though, so you know what I’m working with, I recently found a WS-19 mk. II with the PSU no. 1 mounted together on a metal plate. It has the “dogbone” connector running between the two units, an aerial cable running from the A Set to the B set connector, and a 7 or 8’ 12 pin connector. No variometer, control units, microphones, or anything else. What I want to do is set this up in my recording studio, run a microphone into it, turn it on, and record all the strange sounds coming out as my vocalist does his thing with the mic and I twist the various knobs. So on to my questions.. How is how is this being powered? I see two wires coming out of “dogbone” connection, but beyond that I can’t tell. Next, am I able to install an XLR input in place of the Morse code input? If not, what would you recommend in order to run a modern microphone into the set? I believe I may have seen an XLR in place of the B aerial connector, if I remember correctly. Finally, how can I get sound to come out? Where and I how can I connect a speaker? How is it connected for this video? I know that’s a lot of questions, but I’ve searched and the info all seems to be stored in 60 year old magazines that I’ll never be able to get my hands on. Oh yeah, one last thing, do I need to connect an aerial for my purposes? Thank you for reading, I hope this wasn’t too sacrilegious or annoying..
Sean McDonald Hi Sean, it will be a major undertaking to use the 19 set as you’ve described. So much work, in fact, that I don’t think it will be worth while.
Radio Workshop Well, could you answer me this - is it possible to power the WS-19 without a Variometer? And if so, preferably using AC power?
You will need a power supply to run the 19 set from an AC supply.
Radio Workshop When you say power supply, are you referring to one of the PSUs made for the WS-19, such as the “Power Supply Unit No. 1” that came mounted to a metal plate with my WS-19, or are you referring to something else, like some kind of special-made AC power supply? Thank you very much for taking the time to respond to me, I realize that it’s probably a wee bit annoying, dealing with these questions from somebody who has extremely limited knowledge on the subject. I really do appreciate it.
Sean McDonald you would need a homemade AC power supply. The original is a 12 Volt supply which would need a car battery to run it.
Question why is illegal?
You need a license to use it on the ham bands.
Similar to the Collins R-390 in the US?
The 19 set is a transmitter and receiver. I believe the Collins R-390 is a receiver only. Nice piece of kit, though.
Great video as ever but please stop calling it 'amacher' radio, it's AMATEUR radio.
@7:47 🤣🤣✌️
Good grief! Me, do something illegal? Haha! 🤣😂
@@g4nsj haha of course not 😝👍
you paid thirty bob, you mean :-)
Indeed!
Hello!! how much is this radio? More or less :)
+AnthonyL Sorry, it's not for sale. I think they are around £250 on ebay.
+Radio Workshop I know it. I have it! I would like to sell it but I dont know what is the prize. Can you help me? Thanks from Spain :)
Ebay is the place to sell it but I don't what it's worth. Sorry.
My nephew ( M7IRJ Berkshire ) has a Murphy B40 marine receiver, not powering up, could you service - get it going, could bring to Worthing Christmas time this year 2022
Seventy three , Alex 2M0HZO ( your tube channel best ham channel online )
Hi Alex, I'm afraid I can't help as I've retired and no longer have a workshop. I only worked on 1940s domestic valve radios anyway. Sorry about that. Cheers, Ray.
@@g4nsj TNX Ray I see a face book group ( tom aquilla )
seventy threes to ye
"Infamous" Really ? = "well known for some bad quality or deed" (Concise Oxford Dictionary)
Well known for pirating! A bad deed, in some people's eyes. Haha!
@@g4nsj Ah I get it. I was thinking of it as a WW2 hero.
My dad was an electronics engineer and acoustics specialist at the Post Office Dollis Hill research lab from 1938. He used a method devised by Bell Labs to work out the best frequency characteristics of an intercom system to maximise intelligibility in conditions of extreme noise, where the volume level in the headphones is limited by the need to avoid hurting the user's ears. I speculate that his work was used to specify the characteristics of the 19 set intercom system.