15-10-2012, 10:06 PM
There's a little bit about the PTR (as well as quite a lot about the PCR range) at this link, but it doesn't explain what the acronym PTR stands for:
http://www.pyetelecomhistory.org/prodhis..._PCR_PCR2_
Unlike the 1155, which spanned the war years and beyond from 1939 and into the late 40s, the PCR range came into being quite late in the war in 1944, and continued in production into the 1960s. Unless my mind is playing tricks, I seem to recall them being sold by surplus dealers as 'Sputnik Specials' to monitor the Sputnik signals on. (1956 or thereabouts?).
They came with a separate power supply - either for AC mains, like Joe's, or a 12 Volt vibrator PSU.
When we look at prices of magazine adverts back in the 1950s and 60s and see such sets as 1155s, PCRs, 19 sets etc, at £10 each, they were really very expensive, and by no means a bargain. At that time they were so commonplace that few buyers would have considered them a collectors item - just a means of getting hold of a short-wave receiver which could be adapted and improved to suit their SWLing or amateur needs. Apart from that, components to build a short wave receiver or transmitter - unless culled from old sets be they civilian or military - could be bought.
As to collecting sets (other than to put them to good use), back then, few had any net disposable income to indulge in collecting such things, (which most at that time wouldn't have considered 'collectable' anyway), and few would have much space to store them. From my recollections, it was not until the mid 1970s that such sets started to become covetable. Nowadays of course, for those who wish to indulge themselves, there's e-bay...
http://www.pyetelecomhistory.org/prodhis..._PCR_PCR2_
Unlike the 1155, which spanned the war years and beyond from 1939 and into the late 40s, the PCR range came into being quite late in the war in 1944, and continued in production into the 1960s. Unless my mind is playing tricks, I seem to recall them being sold by surplus dealers as 'Sputnik Specials' to monitor the Sputnik signals on. (1956 or thereabouts?).
They came with a separate power supply - either for AC mains, like Joe's, or a 12 Volt vibrator PSU.
When we look at prices of magazine adverts back in the 1950s and 60s and see such sets as 1155s, PCRs, 19 sets etc, at £10 each, they were really very expensive, and by no means a bargain. At that time they were so commonplace that few buyers would have considered them a collectors item - just a means of getting hold of a short-wave receiver which could be adapted and improved to suit their SWLing or amateur needs. Apart from that, components to build a short wave receiver or transmitter - unless culled from old sets be they civilian or military - could be bought.
As to collecting sets (other than to put them to good use), back then, few had any net disposable income to indulge in collecting such things, (which most at that time wouldn't have considered 'collectable' anyway), and few would have much space to store them. From my recollections, it was not until the mid 1970s that such sets started to become covetable. Nowadays of course, for those who wish to indulge themselves, there's e-bay...
Regards, David.
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'I'm in my own little world, but I'm happy, and they know me here'
