R 1155 Lancaster Bomber Radio

R 1155 lancaster bomber radio

[@hugh007]

I'm amazed by all the screws just on the front panel. No machine assembly here. Imagine the lady who had to put them in all day at the factory. Thanks for the video

[@randytighe7150]

My dad, who passed at 93 8 years ago - would have had this kind of equipment in his radio (ham) shack. At one point I had a "BC221" - a kind of frequency measurement device - which you used by zeroing out a hetrodyne tone from mixing an input signal with the built in oscillator. This is awesome

[@ry491]

I bought one of these unused in crate back in the 60s . I built a seperate psu and 6v6 output stage . Beautiful reciever with lovely tuning control . Nothing like the feel and smell of old tube radios . I have quite a few tube radios . Much more fun than modern solid state recievers . There was a matching transmitter for that set 1154 series . Here in the UK back in the 60s there was masses of surplus equipment being sold for peanuts . Enjoy that set . It's a great find . Best wishes from Thomas .... Manchester UK .

[@dieselten01]

@@ry491 thank you for your comments Thomas

[@alandoherty8279]

Had one of those in 1970 when I was starting out SWLing. It was ww2 surplus, came in a wooden crate and wrapped in wax paper, had never been opened. I seem to remember it was not too much money, but as I had just started working, it took several months to save for it ! I have no idea what happened to that receiver, but someone got a good one. Have fun and enjoy your wonderful receiver collection. I still have a few here, including Racal 1772, Eddystone 958, TenTec RX340 etc. Alan, GI0OTC

[@dieselten01]

@@alandoherty8279 thank you Alan!

[@mikeburch2998]

Congratulations on the repair and recovery! Well done. Greetings from Arizona K8MB

[@dieselten01]

@@mikeburch2998 thanks Mike!

[@arcticradio]

I’ve got an R1155E (Steel cased) in its original packing crate with all its jones plugs. It’s never been ripped apart. I carefully removed the wax from inside the old capacitors and fitted new ones inside the metal tube so as to keep the capacitors looking original in the radio. It still works well.

[@dieselten01]

@@arcticradio very nice! I would love to see you do a video on your 1155 in your listening shack. You have awesome access to LW that we don’t have here in the US. Thanks for your comments

[@arcticradio]

@@dieselten01 It’s in storage at the moment along with the RCA AR88D and AR88LF model, various 1920’s and 30’s radios also. I used to have a collection of over 400 radios….all sorts of communications sets and valve radios. I only kept a few good ones.

[@anthonymokelkie9360]

you really cant beat a tube radio for shortwave listening. if they fixed and nice rebuilt tuned they are wonderful.

[@myradiovideos]

The Magic Eye, GREEN, eye, is present on many of my vintage test equipment, but not on any SWL radio.. Many vintage desk top tube AM radios have this type of magic eye... Personally it is a very cool feature... 🙂

[@mattottie6410]

All you need now Nick is the airplane, nice peice of history, i just got a RG52a that does not work correctly, you are not the only one getting burned , it happens with old electronics as we know... thx. Matt

[@madrafboy]

Nice to see one of these old girls again. I had a couple of these in the 1970's. Lovely old set's. They were manufactured by E K Cole (ECKO) here in Malmesbury UK. They were probably made extensively throughout the UK by different manufactures, during the war years as they were fitted to lots of different aircraft . I believe they were also used in tanks and Marine craft units depending on there R1155* suffix. Thanks for the video!

[@dieselten01]

@@madrafboy thank you for your comments

[@phillipsmiley5930]

Dont know of any used in Tanks they usually got 19sets, some were used in command vehicles. and some we used in RAF rescue boats, Ships got B28 (CR100) and B40

[@charliemuggins-n9w]

Hi Nick, it looks good. I have 4 more currently in the workshop, one will be on the bay this weekend.

[@dieselten01]

Is it possible that you can do one with a signal strength meter in place of the robot eye? I will buy it directly from you -Nick

[@charliemuggins-n9w]

@@dieselten01 I can do that, it may take a few weeks as I'm currently finishing another one for ebay and then have a Yaesu FR-100B which someone has wrecked. Does it need to have all the labels etc?

[@dieselten01]

@@charliemuggins-n9w yes. I want it identical to this one you just sold me, beautiful case, labels, and Dial face & glass. Except substitute the robot eye for a meter. Can you give me your email so we can deal directly?

[@gregorywarner1408]

Our radio club at Garendon secondry school had one of these. Procured by our Science teacher Douglas Doughty who served in Bomber Command during the war.

[@nickrolfe367]

Wow very nice, great to see it still working

[@joeyjennings9548]

i like the old analog. you get a better feel to find. just more hands on.

[@pjsage921]

I had one a brilliant receiver on medium wave

[@6643bear]

Hi great video, I had one of these when I started swl when I started work , also rca ar88 too with matching socks speaker and had the proper tuning tools too. 73 mark G8rde

[@phillipsmiley5930]

The Direction finding tubes were removed from most of them, it used a turnable loop antenna with a cross pointer meter connected to the R1155 which crossed pointers when the loop was on direction

[@hairy248]

Nice sets these. I have a r 107 reciever also british built.

[@batfalcononyoutube]

Marvelous! Still, I can't understand how on Earth you belived in the seller, selling a 80 year old radio that it really WORKS! If the tubes are not off for some reason, it will live to be 100!!!

[@dieselten01]

@@batfalcononyoutube thanks for your comments. Sometimes I do get burned with bad radios

[@darrellhagan6124]

I buy lots of old electronics and have only been burned once in 23 years. The tricks are 1) Know something about what you're buying - the more the better because it lets you be more aware of potential known problems. 2) Lots of due diligence if you don't know the seller. 3) Go with your gut feelings - they're usually right.

[@RickCutter]

My 1st radio had 'Cat's Eye" tuning ... Nice find.

[@modularsynthguy6694]

Amazing Video!

[@dieselten01]

@@modularsynthguy6694 thank you!

[@itsonlyme9938]

There is a time signal on 3.330 KHZ called CHU in Canada there is also a web page for CHU giving listing of other frequencie. 3.330khz I have heard here in the UK

[@scratchdog2216]

Neat RX. A demo of some CW would have been interesting. Stability and practical bandwidth mainly curious of. A Navy beam filter helps on some rigs.

[@dieselten01]

I just posted a video of this radio on CW kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIDYnZqonLdkfqcsi=dbhtEN-K1w9oCZwx

[@itsonlyme9938]

the R1155 was built from of the shelf parts not top grade components unlike the USA radio's There are two version of the R1155 one for marine and the other for aircraft the difference is in the frequencie range and there is also a transmitter to go with it the R1154 which pluged in to sockets on the R1155.

[@Inkling777]

Listening to WWV on a WWII bomber's radio a question came to me. How did Allied air crews set their watches? If there had been an equivalent of WWV in the UK at the time, the Germans could have used it for direction finding.

[@phillipsmiley5930]

Aircrews synchronized their watches at the mission briefing

[@mikeburch2998]

The hum might be caused by a stale electrolyitic cap. It is pretty old.

[@dieselten01]

@@mikeburch2998 agreed. But that is way beyond my skill set

[@myradiovideos]

Sounds like you are a technician Nick,, You fixed it my friend.. I just looked at the schematic and it is a very cool design.... Enjoy....

[@dieselten01]

@@myradiovideos incidentally, that short clip I sent you was before I found the tube that was out

[@Veso266]

What are the connectors on the front for? Do u have some equipment that plugs into them

[@dieselten01]

@@Veso266 if you mean the connectors in the bottom, right hand corner, those are for the original direction finding equipment. That equipment is no longer inside the radio.

[@Veso266]

@@dieselten01 oh, how was that suppose to work U plug some device to connectors, and then what? Can you source that equipment somehow so u have a complete set?

[@dieselten01]

@@Veso266 I don’t have a complete set and I don’t have an owners manual. I have no idea how to use that equipment. I only know how to use the radio.

[@RadioMcRadioface]

that robot eye still did not change or did i miss it?

[@dieselten01]

@@RadioMcRadioface it isn’t perfect. It does change slightly, sometimes. It is only the 4 thin fingers that get thicker. Not a good design or even a good idea in my opinion, give me a meter anytime.

[@dieselten01]

I just posted a new short video on the robot eye kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZ7HhmZnhL6BmbMsi=T2SSXVmDwAwZEStr

[@carlosjuanferreiro4528]

Donde se pueden adquirir estos equipos. Alguna psgina web? Gracias

[@dieselten01]

I bought mine on ebay

[@Must-y]

Hello, your antenna please?

[@dieselten01]

@@Must-y Wellbrook mounted outside

[@Must-y]

@@dieselten01 thanks for answering and info

[@EzioMonico]

Wellbrook ,what type antenna,73 by swl Italy 2/3897 Mi (Milan)

[@dieselten01]

@@EzioMonico Wellbrook FLX1530