just made a deal for this off of local craigslist for $50.guy says it works great but there is no make or model any where on it to be found.just have to make a time to pick it up yet and bring it home.



thanks for any idea on what make it is.

Have this moved to Communications receivers, a member has one or very similar, made on LI as a kit or wired?

Carl

See this thread, I have the receiver also and posted a scan of the advertisement selling them as surplus: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=181557

Rodger WQ9E

thanks.checked the thread.this one looks like it might have had a plate on left front near top at one time based on the 4 holes.would this be the military one then?also how good a receiver is it?any problems with yours?
thanks
Harold

I was thinking of Jim Kohler who has one and lives on LI so I guess they are fairly popular.
Ive seen several on Fleabay but couldnt remember the name.

Carl

thanks Carl.

Harold,

Just keep in mind this is an AC/DC design. It was usable on ships that had only DC power but use caution since it has no transformer and installing an isolation transformer would be a good idea. Be careful when working on it to avoid the hot chassis syndrome. It is a usable receiver, nothing special but certainly better than the lower end receivers like a S-38 or NC-60 "special".

Mine is also missing the plate and I suspect they were removed from the "kits" sold by Boulevard. I have a feeling that these may have gone from the manufacturer to the reseller in Chicago instead of the usual surplus route of being sold by the government and thus there might have been a legal issue with a Coast Guard tag on something never sold to the Coast Guard. Somewhere I recall seeing a note about these also being used in a training program at Great Lakes NTC and that could account for the Chicago connection.

Rodger WQ9E

thanks.have never installed an isulation transformer so guess I will just have to be careful.
thanks.

On here:

http://www.imradioha.org/CG_RX_R-138.htm

It shows the plate for the Coast Guard version, having been made by the company of L.R. Dooley. They said a google check for L.R. Dooley showed only some corospondence between them and a dancer.

However, I did a check on Google, and found this:

http://redbook.gao.gov/8/fl0036790.php

Which states the Coast Guard had entered a contract with L.R. Dooley for 800 AC-Dc communication recievers in 1948. However, L.R. Dooley failed to provide the recievers, and it appears by 1952, the coast guard wanted to terminate the contract and go with Hallicracters at that point.

I also found some references to a L.R. Dooley in the 1930s (1933 and 1938) as having worked as a representative for the Curtiss-Wright Aircraft Company.

I suspect they are one and the same person, and that this was possibly his first (and only?) venture into providing radios, however as stated on the above page, the first test model he provided failed to meet their specs, and he then failed to provide a second model. By this time, it was late 1952/early 1953 when the coast guard wanted to terminate the contract. It's possibly at this time, that he then sold off his remaining parts to Boulevard Electronics, who then simply sold them off as kits, as shown in the 1953 ad.

well picked it up today and is alot bigger then it looked in picture.hooked it up and it works great after I figured out you had to have the crystal filter in the on position if wanted to hear anything.still working on the BFO as it needs some cleaning but works ok.think this maybe is a coast guard radio as there is a small yellow sticker on the side that says North American with H-113 underneath it.like I said it works great and is alot better than my Hallicrafters S-38B.picked up alot of stations and will see what it does when the sun gors down.

Glad it is working OK. It is a MUCH better radio than an S-38. Of course that is damn faint praise indeed

It is a fairly large radio but the lack of power transformer keeps the weight under control.

Rodger WQ9E