Wireless Set
 

Hey guys, I've yet to get it out of my trunk but it is a Wireless set 19 Mark 111, with manuals and an extra box of tubes. Comes with antenna, and from what the guy told me, it still fires up.
Email me for pics,I've no idea what this thing is worth.I was going to use it for a background prop for my interviews,but it is way too heavy to be lugging around by myself...
It was donated to me so I will let it go for the highest donation to help fund my Memories Revovered Project.
Cheers!

Radio
 

Hello,

I am interested in the set. Shipping is always a factor - so where are you located? I will send a PM with my email address for the photos.

Cheers,

Need pictures Please? :cool:

Wirelss radio
 

Hey guys,highest offer at the end of the day takes it!

Re: Radio
 

Rob
He's in Sylvan Lake ,Alberta..Just a few miles northwest of Red Deer..

Wireless
 

By the way,it is marked "1944' on the front plate. Did these radio's always have the seemingly"Russian"lettering on the dials as well?I just thougth I'd ask...
I'll be gone for most of the day guys(It's that time of the year!)but I will be checking back around 8 'ish Mtn time and I will let you guys know what's going on with it.I'm heading to Nova Scotia in 3 days until the end f the month,and I'd like to have this taken care of if I can before then.

Cheers!

Mate, you flying or driving Downeast? Might make a difference to prospective buyers in this area...

Radio
 

I'm flying,could strap a chute to it though...My bad east coast sense of humour!

Mark Wireless 19/MK 111 SOLD
 

Set is sold guys. Thanks for the emails and supporting my project.
Cheers!

Who got it...???
 

Who is the lucky fellow that will need to lie to his wife...???? again


Bob

Hehe... that would be Mike T. Maybe I shouldn't give his name in case she is prowling the site!
Cheers!

Good point. We really should not use the auto fill for our passwords, and should dump our history after every visit. And hopefully Geoff is watching new applicants to make sure they are not from our already existing IP addresses.

:)
Cheers!

That means.... I'm supposed to chart 1600+ IP addresses and to compare them with that of each new applicant? Er.... I DO have a regular job, mate, in addition to playing caped crusader most nights (no comments from the bleachers!)... :D

Sorry, but it's all I can do is vet new applicants based upon established criteria. Incidentally, the same email address cannot be used twice, so at least that's out; plus, of course, I will not approve a member without a name, even if that name has to be used separately - unlikely any wives will sneak in. What I'd be more worried about is that if your cookies automatically log you in, your better half COULD go in as you when you're not around... :p

Re: Wireless
 

Yes, the Russians learnt very quickly that the efficiency of the quite excellent T34 and its vast numbers comparatively, was seriously compromised by the lack of any radio equipment whatsoever.

To quote Louis Meulstee:
"The Canadian 19 set was first produced in Jan 1942 following the Pye radio design, using local Canadian components and production methods. Several known deficiencies of the British set were overcome and modifications incorporated.

In the summer of 1941 the Dept of National Defence authorised the manufacture of the set in Canada, four engineers of Northern Electric were sent to Pye Radio to transfer the design. . . . . . . . .

The design was later shared with the Canadian Marconi Company and RCA Victor. The latter companies entered production with the placing of Lend-Lease contracts.

One of the primary contracts was with Russia which resulted in the English/Cyrillic lettering on the front panel of the set, PSU and control units."

I well remember the eerie but very impressive glow from the copious luminising on the new and un-issued one I had around 1960 when they were affordable from your pocket money and dumped after the novelty wore off. I suspect the average Health & Safety Inspector today would have a fit if he saw one and tape the area off as a nuclear hazard.

However, I can say after sitting in front of one back then for months probably, that 41½ years and two daughters later, I have not yet died of any attributable cause.

Time will tell though.

I'll keep you posted. ;)

R.

19
 

During the wander around Narre Warren last Saturday , I spotted these 19 sets sitting in the main shed . The two upper right ones are WW2 made , underneath them sits a post war example , with its darker grey/blue face . The two on the left are 1952 post war re-builds of WW2 sets , done here in OZ , they have duck egg blue faces . The right middle one has a RCA makers badge on it , made in good ol USA .

Horrible things ... ! try netting in a bumping tank .

Mike

Mike I never had any problems with the 19 set at all...and have fathered severel children!you coyuld buy the sets here complete at £5.00. from the local radio shop in South-Shields when I was at radio school in 1965..then in the army the only time I saw the 19 sets where when the B Specials where using them in NI...our Foreman of Sigs used to have to repair them..in all those little fortified camps over the province...I was his driver bodyguard with my little sterling!Mike can you please pm me as i have obtained an OLGA suitcase set from Milorg/Norway WW2 and need some advise.regards from a cold North-Northumberland.malcolm

Kinda figured it was a lend/lease thing...cool history!