{"id":17596,"date":"2016-03-04T08:46:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T12:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=17596"},"modified":"2016-03-04T09:50:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T13:50:04","slug":"vendel-remembers-tuning-a-scott-marine-slr-m-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/vendel-remembers-tuning-a-scott-marine-slr-m-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuning the Scott Marine SLR-M at sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Scott-Marine-SLR-M-Dial\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> reader,\u00a0Vendel Boeree (K2DSI), who writes:<\/p>\n

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<\/a> not that long ago.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Scott-Marine-SLR-M\"<\/a>Back 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”. <\/em><\/p>\n

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<\/a>. 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n

Take care and keep up the good work.<\/em><\/p>\n

Vendel Boeree\/ K2DSI<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks so much for sharing those memories, Vendel! I bet reception was nothing short of amazing while you were at sea.\u00a0I’m guessing the slide rule model Scott you listened to in the lounge was the model SLR-F (click here for a photo<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Yep. Scottie’s a keeper!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post reader,\u00a0Vendel 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,1271,433,3,305,288,26,43],"tags":[3492,3491,4807],"class_list":["post-17596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-boat-anchors-2","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-scott-marine-radio","tag-scott-marine-radio-slr-m","tag-vendel-boereel-k2dsi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4zO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22227,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/what-radio-would-you-grab-in-a-fire\/","url_meta":{"origin":17596,"position":0},"title":"What radio would you grab in a fire?","author":"Thomas","date":"November 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Lately, fires have been on my mind. 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