Ok, first off it looks like Michael Grigoni wants it, so unless this thing is the Holy Grail of WWII memoriabilia, I assume I'll be giving it to him. I just took 4 photos of the unit. These are at the max resolution and minimal jpeg compression mode of the camera, so the files are big. This unit has never been cleaned by me, and there is a lot of dust on the control knobs. You can see its certainly not in great condition, but then, its almost 60 years old. I forget what I paid for it at a university auction over 10 years ago... Missing one control knob, on the Phasing control. You will have to get a replacement, or figure out how to fire the phasers manually. Wells Gardner & CO some of the information from the top of the unit: model rao-2 navy bureau of ships contractor National Company, Inc Malden, Mass contract number contract date NXs 4681 April 30,1942 Type CNA-46187 74 pounds serial 1329 accepted by navy placed in service 6-25-43 ? -Lawrence LeMay lemay(a)cs.umn.edu

Upon the date 11:47 PM 10/16/99 -0500, Lawrence LeMay said something like: Good! Go for it Mike. Hardly a Holy Grail but it's a good boatanchor example from WWII era. I have an RBL-3 which looks very similar but receives 15 KHz to 600 KHz (VLF, or Very Low Frequency). Yours is a military version of National's commercial NC-100XA and receives frequencies mine too from a design that the contractor, National, had made for the War effort. Kinda dark, but somewhat readable by me as I'd seen RAO's before. Thanks for the heads up although it's drastically off-topic and that Mike is able to save it from the trash barrel. Although it's rather seedy looking apparently from storage it should restore to a very nice set with a lot of TLC. Regards, Chris -- -- Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian Jamestown, NY USA cfandt(a)netsync.net Member of Antique Wireless Association URL: http://www.antiquewireless.org/