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G6Tanuki · 28th Jun 2020, 8:25 pm

As a kid I lusted after a CR70A - but funds were limited and so I bought an ex-military TCS12 from GWM Radio in Worthing and built my own power-supply.

A few years later I got to play with a CR70A - and was glad I didn't spend my pocket-money on a new one. The tuning-dial was many tens of KHz 'off' even on 7MHz, it drifted horribly when warming-up [so switch on an hour before you needed to use it] and receiving SSB stations was never really much fun. I viewed it as an 'upstart broadcast-receiver with a BFO' rather than a proper communications-receiver.

I wonder what became of Codar Radio Company? They're not listed on Grace's Guide, nor do they appear in the Companies House records of businesses extant-or-dissolved, which implies that they stopped trading well before the 1990s.

28th Jun 2020, 8:25 pm	#3
G6Tanuki Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Wiltshire, UK. Posts: 13,996	Re: CR-70A receiver Checkout As a kid I lusted after a CR70A - but funds were limited and so I bought an ex-military TCS12 from GWM Radio in Worthing and built my own power-supply. A few years later I got to play with a CR70A - and was glad I didn't spend my pocket-money on a new one. The tuning-dial was many tens of KHz 'off' even on 7MHz, it drifted horribly when warming-up [so switch on an hour before you needed to use it] and receiving SSB stations was never really much fun. I viewed it as an 'upstart broadcast-receiver with a BFO' rather than a proper communications-receiver. I wonder what became of Codar Radio Company? They're not listed on Grace's Guide, nor do they appear in the Companies House records of businesses extant-or-dissolved, which implies that they stopped trading well before the 1990s.