[Milsurplus] re: Needed (not "needful" ) things

[Hue Miller]

Not to mention that while the Navy apparently liked the idea of a compact,
reliable, and not too selective receiver, they Navy also sort of modified the
role of this box. Adding more long-range communications frequencies by
additional coils; adding a  BFO (the early BC-229/429 forerunner, at least
some of them, had an outboard BFO accessory), and pairing it with high
power transmitters for the liaison role ( GO, GP ).

I can only think of really, one other straight TRF receiver in WW2. That was
( i think ) the receiver part of the radio ( FuG 3 ???) used in the Stuka JU
divebomber, among others. This one had the dial system that had the
pointer  with a big arc on the front panel. There was one of those in that big
pile of surplus junk that some guy from the East and West Coasts ( a 
travelling dealer, apparently ) if i recall, named Vernon Vogt, who had serveral
web pages of apparently left over rarities and mostly rare parts, this was 
something mentioned here maybe 4-5 years ago. Wonder where all that stuff
finally went. Oh, back to subject, sort of: the UK's  TR-9 had a regen receiver,
so did the Russian A-7, i believe. The TRF certainly did solve the receiver and
transmitter drift problem. 
-Hue Miller