EH Scott RCH Navy Ship Tube Receiver Ham Shortwave Radio Demo

Demo of a old EH Scott receiver that I recently repaired. When I picked it up, it was a mess. Now it plays super. The video shows the unit out of the cabinet. Yes, I have the original cabinet. The entire receiver weighs approx 105 Lbs. Found lots of good info on the web for repairing it. D-Lab offers repair of vintage electronics from Ham gear to guitar amps! Enjoy the presentation.

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[HobieTyourtube]

Great work----------to "resurect "old gear from WW2-and make it work to specifications------shows that our grandfathers knew about "performance".

That tuning mechanism and flywheel effect-is nothing short of-perfection.

Nothing is left to chance?-the construction is solid-that's why they weighed "so much ?

Your restorative "mods "are-great

Steve.

[dlab500]

Hi Steve, I appreciate it very much Sir. I enjoy working on the tube equipment. All of my Ham gear is tube type. A friend of mine was in the Navy. He is now running the RX in his shack and loving the booming AM!

[mnpd007]

Nice job. Reminds me of the early 70's when a friend and I would go to a local Army/Navy surplus store and buy their supply of Bureau of Ships TCS-13 receivers... for $5 if you can believe it. They didn't need re-capped or repaired; only a 120VAC power supply which we'd build on an upside down bake pan. Best I can remember, every one of those receivers worked except one which needed the BFO circuit fixed.

[patrickthepipe]

the strange noise on band one is the rubbish from switch mode power supplies

[TheTerlingua]

I hsave a RCH also . The power supply 4 MFD electrolytic cap which side is the B plus side . is it the latter near the chassis or the outter from the base of the cap ????? Help :( Kc5mip Txradioman@att.net

[SUPERDAVIDLEVINE]

I could never see the life of me my amature radio was deregulated no need for morse coe even the military does not use it and a buch of tecknical imformation tahdt went basck to the 20,s when hams built there own equiment and with saterlite comunications thre ismore spae on the spectrum I don,t think above standard broadcast is used for of any thing then thee is coast if there were morehams well I think the cost of equipment would go down I and the tuning iss now al diditl

[gadget73]

nice piece. I have an SLR-12B, which was the "morale" receiver version. Its not as nice as the RCH, but its still a nice piece. EH Scott built some of the best radios money could buy before the war, and their wartime production was just as good. I have a post-war 800B that i've refurbished and a pre-war Allwave 15 that is on my list of projects. Both are just amazingly well built.

[kirwinjd]

I have the exact RX! I  just pulled it out of storage for the first time in 20 years.

It was my first piece of equipment when I got my ham ticket.

Thanks for sharing this. Do you think it's worth restoring?

[KC8YOQ]

I have a BC 342n receiver that I restored and now works great! Great old radio! those beacons are NDB from airports around the world!!!

[blogbat]

Hand-painted the numbers back on? Wow. Exquisite job.

[central807]

I believe this radio was one of two different receivers used as part of a larger Federal 167A transmitting set. It was designed to limit spurious emissions and stray oscillations to prevent enemy submarines from tracking a ship carrying these radio equipment.

[martinimetford]

I just acquired a very nice one of these, and would like to add the impedance step-down transformer so I can use standard 8Ω speakers. Can you give me the particulars on the model of xfmr you used? Nobody seems to carry 600:8Ω matching xfmrs anymore.