Tuning the Scott Marine SLR-M at sea

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Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Vendel Boeree (K2DSI), who writes:

Hi Tom, I just wanted to compliment you on your fine website. As a kid I would listen to Radio Netherlands which made me quite the hit with mom because she was homesick for our native Holland for quite some time. I was heart broken to find out that Radio Netherlands went dark not that long ago.

Scott-Marine-SLR-MBack in 1967 my family moved to Australia and went there by freighter. Things didn’t work out as planned and we returned on an old American freighter, the “African Moon”.

I became friendly with the radio operator on that ship and he let me shortwave listen when he was off watch. The receiver was a “Scott” and appeared to be the same as yours. They also had a “Scott” receiver in the lounge that had a slide rule dial that was used for entertainment purposes. I was hooked. I wanted to be a radio operator.

Needless to say I didn’t follow through on that dream and I suppose that’s just as well seeing as how ROs are a thing of the past.

Take care and keep up the good work.

Vendel Boeree/ K2DSI

Thanks so much for sharing those memories, Vendel! I bet reception was nothing short of amazing while you were at sea. I’m guessing the slide rule model Scott you listened to in the lounge was the model SLR-F (click here for a photo).

Just the other day, my wife looked around my radio shack and asked what radio I would grab if the house were on fire. My answer was the Scott Marine SLR-M. It represents everything I love in WWII era receivers: built like a tank, great sensitivity, beautiful back-lit dial, built-in speaker, phono in, a magic eye and–since it was intended as a troop morale radio–beautiful room-filling audio.

Yep. Scottie’s a keeper!

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3 thoughts on “Tuning the Scott Marine SLR-M at sea

  1. 13dka

    Thinking about that.. not being in love with a boat anchor anymore may increase my chance of surviving a house fire by a percentage approximately equal to the weight of the receiver multiplied by its content capacity in liters. I case of my old Siemens that would’ve been 38kg x 20l = 760%! . Sounds about right to me. 🙂

    (A part of me misses the smell of old dust, tobacco crumbs and dog hair being fried on toobs.)

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    1. Thomas Post author

      I should’ve mentioned that I must make the assumption that since the house is on fire, my adrenaline would give me the strength to pick up the Scott! Very, very heavy metal! 🙂

      Thomas

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