I played with an RME4300 at a ham store once and liked the tuning. It was the first planetary reduction tuning on a ham rig as I recall. Being the first, I imagine it had bugs, but when it was working it was very smooth and nice.
At 01:43 PM 4/19/02 -0500, you wrote:
>My Dad had an RME 69 (general coverage) receiver and later a RME 4350A (ham
>band only). The latter was dual-conversion and the "A" in the model number
>indicated a 100 kHz crystal calibrator. I think it covered eleven meters,
>but it was before the WARC band allocations. The 4350 had pretty good
>sensitivity and selectivity, but the tuning mechanism was nothing but
>trouble for us.
>
>The RME stood for Radio Manufacturing Engineers (or something like that) and
>was a division of ElectroVoice.
>
>--Mike, K9AZS
>
>-- Original Message -----
>From: "David R. Basden" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 8:36 AM
>Subject: Re: Old Receivers
>
>
>> The major manufacturers in the early 60's were Hallicrafters, National,
>> Hammurland, and Collins. As I recall, the SX100 (general coverage) and
>> SX101A were the Hallicrafters models, the Nc300 and then NC303 were the
>> National models, the Hammurland HQ160 (general coverage) and HQ170 were
>the
>> Hammurland models, and the Collins 75A4 was the Collins model . A couple
>> of others whose makers I have forgotten were the GPR90 and the RME4300.
>>
>> At 12:55 PM 4/18/02 -0700, you wrote:
>> >Hi All,
>> >
>> >I recently acquired a very good condition Knight Kit T-60 transmitter
>which
>> >is the same kind of rig I used as a novice and early general. Now, I
>want
>> >to match up a vintage receiver with it. Does anyone on the list know of
>a
>> >document in accessible format that would describe the various models of
>> >Hallicrafter, Hammarlund and other older receivers and what was offered
>by
>> >each model? I would sure appreciate any information I could get on this
>> >subject.
>> >
>> > From having lived through the later part of those tube years I remember
>that
>> >the SX in Hallicrafter names meant that the receiver had crystal
>filtering
>> >but I don't know much about the model numbers as which was produced
>first,
>> >which were ham bands only and which were general coverage. And, I know
>even
>> >less about Hammarlund.
>> >
>> >by the way, does anyone have any of those old crystals in the FT-243
>holder
>> >which might work with my T-60 or, better yet, a VFO?
>> >
>> >I thank you in advance for your help on this one. 73
>> >Kevin, K7RX
>> >
>> >Kevin Nathan, Independent Living Coordinator
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>> >3411 S. Alaska
>> >Seattle, Wa 98118
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>>
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