Navy Pre-war SE (Steam Engineering) Receivers

1922 USN Manual "Instructions for the Operation, Care, and Repair of Radio Plants"
1929 Radio Materiel School Notebook including receiver info
History of Communications-Electronics in the United States Navy,
by Captain Linwood S. Howeth, USN (Retired)
1890-1948 - Radio Reminiscences by Hoyt Taylor, NRL
List of SE Receivers & Transmitters
1920 Radio Club of America Article on Navy Receivers
USN History of SE Radio Division in WW1 - thanks to Google Books
Western Historic Radio Museum - Early Navy long wave receivers - excellent info and photos
AL N3FRQ's article on prewar receivers - includes equipment manuals
1900's Radioman Memoir - shipboard and shore station

1914 - USS New Jersey BB-16

1925 - RMC Gilmour holds 1905 NAA receiver
- on table is SE-1420-C receiver and other as yet unidentified equipment (Photo by United)

CN-240 (1917) 1,000-10,000 meters
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CR-1235 Silicon-Antimony Detector
SE-143 Receiver			--
SE-183A Triple Detector
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SE-184-A Crystal Detector
SE-899 (1918) 300-12,000 meters
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SE-1012A

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SE-1071 Audion Control Box

SE-1420 (1919) - More photos and info from Western Historic Radio Museum 300-7500 meters


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SE-1420-C (1923)			--
SE-1899 (1921) 1,000-25,000 meters			-
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Nomenclature changed from SE-xxx to RA, RB, etc.
Receiver schematics RE - 10-100kc RF - 75-1000kc RG - 1mc-20mc	Model RE, RF, and/or RG at Washington Communications Station (1932)	More photos of an RG RG
RS-1 3750-25000kc (modified by Pan Am)			Pan Am Manila station
RAA-3 Receiver web page RAB Receiver Web Page		Cavite "Receiving Hut" - from 1922 Radio Broadcast magazine thanks to Google
Miscellaneous Devices
Early Antenna Distributing Switch New York Navy Yard Type RY 24 F 128 A

CD-53 Protective Device

Info from History of Communications-Electronics in the United States Navy,
by Captain Linwood S. Howeth, USN (Retired), 1963 pp. 589-603

Type number (Model)	Frequency (kc.)	Use
IP 76	---	General utility
A	60-600	Do.
B	30-300	Do.
C	1,200-3,000	Landing force
SE 95	30-300	General utility
SE 143	100-1,200	Do.
CN 208	100-1,200	Do.
CN 240	30-300	Do.
CM 294	96-1,500	Do.
SE 889	30-300	Do.
SE 952	50-600	Do.
SE 1220	43-1,000	Do.
CW 1313	610, 728, 822, 864, 1027	Battleships, fire control
CG 1323	308, 375, 444, 500, 592	Battleships, aircraft spotting
SE 1420	43-1,200	General utility
SE 1530	10-50	Shore stations
SE 1899	12-300	General utility
SE 3649	12-375	Battleships
RA	16-1200	Submarines
RB	10-50	Shore stations
RC	---	Shore stations
RD	12-1200	Destroyers
RE	10-100	General service
RF	75-1,000	General service
RG	1,000-20,000	General service
RH	200-650	General service
RI	40-1,200	General service
RK	12-375	General service
RO	15-1,000/300-620/1,000-22,000	"S" Class submarines
RQ	15-1,000/1,000-22,000	Minesweepers
RS	3,750-22,000	Shore stations
RT	1,000-30,000	General service
RU	250-1,800	Fighting planes
RAA	10-1,000	AC superheterodyne-General service
RAB	1,0000-30,000	General service-AC superheterodyne
RAC	12-80	Shore stations

last edited 06/01/2023 04:40 PM