RCAF Wireless/Communications Equipment

[Bob Carriere]

Stuart Fedak in Ottawa may be able to facilitate things for you.

Bob C

[Dean (Ajax)]

I have been donating RCAF Radio Items to the Canadian War Museum, Aviation division for sometime, perhaps they can help you.

Dean

[David Dunlop]

Thanks for the suggestions, gentlemen. I will look into them. In the past, whenever I needed information on a Canadian Army related topic, I would write to the Directorate of History in Ottawa and they nearly always came through with something useful. I was not sure if they covered RCN and RCAF information as well, or if these two Services maintained their own history sections.

In the meantime, I have now discovered this set was apparently used in it's GR-17 guise by both the RCAF and the Canadian Army, so there must be some GR-17's out there with Canadian Army ID plates on them.

A couple of photos attached of my RCAF Receiver.

David

[David Dunlop]

While I think of it, the second line of the RCAF Data Plate reads "SEC/REF. No.", which for this set happens to be: 10EU/5479.

Can anyone enlighten me as to what "SEC/REF. No." is and what it relates to? My current guess is that it might be a specific RCAF coding or identification system, and the 'REF." is probably short for "REFERENCE". The "SEC" baffles me.

David

[Bruce MacMillan]

SEC/REF is Section/Reference number. In this case it is 10EU/5479.

Section number 10EU refers to valve type radio equipment and Reference number 5479 is the individual stores number for the receiver.

I believe this numbering scheme was began by the RAF and there are some references on the net as to what each section number means. There are quite a few section numbers.

[David Dunlop]

Bruce.

Thanks for that information. The word "section" actually came to mind while I was thinking about that data plate, but for some reason I ruled it out as "too easy" for a piece of military equipment. Silly me!


David

[David Dunlop]

I finally located a photo of the back cover, complete with wall mounting brackets. Seems easy enough to replicate, with the exception of the two columns of louvers. The only place I can think of that used to do that sort of work was custom automotive body shops many years ago, but it also looks like the kind of thing any well equipped sheet metal shop should be able to do.

Anybody had this sort of work done?

David