{"id":27798,"date":"2017-08-30T06:48:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T10:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=27798"},"modified":"2017-08-30T06:48:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T10:48:40","slug":"wwii-radio-truman-and-the-scott-radio-labs-rbo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/wwii-radio-truman-and-the-scott-radio-labs-rbo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WWII Radio: Truman and the Scott Radio Labs RBO-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Kim Elliott, who recently shared the photo above of President Harry S. Truman via @RealTimeWWII<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If I’m not mistaken, that is a\u00a0Scott Radio Labs Model RBO-2.<\/p>\n

I’m guessing that’s also the speaker mounted on the wall directly above the receiver.<\/p>\n

Scott Radio Labs marine receivers were shielded to the point that they had\u00a0very<\/em> low local oscillator radiation. This design prevented detection of the ship via the enemy’s use of radio direction finding gear.<\/p>\n

I have a commercial Scott Marine Radio Model SLRM<\/a>–it is my favorite receiver and I use it daily.<\/p>\n

Post<\/em> readers: Anyone else have a Scott Radio Labs receiver in their shack? Please comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Kim Elliott, who recently shared the photo above of President Harry S. Truman via @RealTimeWWII. If I’m not mistaken, that is a\u00a0Scott Radio Labs Model RBO-2. I’m guessing that’s also the speaker mounted on the wall directly above the receiver. Scott Radio Labs marine receivers were shielded to the […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1271,3,305,288],"tags":[6466,6468,3492,3491,6467,676,1301,2814],"class_list":["post-27798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boat-anchors-2","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","tag-president-harry-s-truman","tag-rbo-2","tag-scott-marine-radio","tag-scott-marine-radio-slr-m","tag-scott-radio-labs-model-rbo-2","tag-wwii","tag-wwii-radio","tag-wwii-radios"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7em","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17596,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/vendel-remembers-tuning-a-scott-marine-slr-m-at-sea\/","url_meta":{"origin":27798,"position":0},"title":"Tuning the Scott Marine SLR-M at sea","author":"Thomas","date":"March 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader,\u00a0Vendel Boeree (K2DSI), who writes: Hi Tom, I just wanted to compliment you on your fine website. 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