{"id":56572,"date":"2023-05-10T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=56572"},"modified":"2023-05-09T06:39:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T10:39:04","slug":"grayhat-discovers-the-rme-6900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/grayhat-discovers-the-rme-6900\/","title":{"rendered":"Grayhat discovers the RME-6900"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Grayhat, who shares the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>The RME-6900: A Nice Boat Anchor from the sixties<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_56575\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/RME-6900-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56575\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56575\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/RME-6900-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/RME-6900-1.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/RME-6900-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/RME-6900-1-1024x578.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/RME-6900-1-768x433.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/RME-6900-1-624x352.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/wa3dsp.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wa3dsp.org<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Let me start by thanking my dear friend Kostas (SV3ORA) since he was the one who sent me a link to the rig asking me if I liked it, and you bet, as soon as I saw the image I loved that rig; the receiver I\u2019m talking about is the RME-6900 and the link Kostas sent me is the following one:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wa3dsp.org\/RME\/RME6900\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/wa3dsp.org\/RME\/RME6900\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, just look at that front panel, the design is a classic and somewhat resembles the Hammarlund and Collins ones from the same period, reading the information via the above link, and some others found on the internet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiomuseum.org\/r\/radio26_rme_9600rme960.html\">https:\/\/www.radiomuseum.org\/r\/radio26_rme_9600rme960.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150330041224\/http:\/www.radioworks.com\/Hamshack\/shack6900.html\">http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150330041224\/http:\/\/www.radioworks.com\/Hamshack\/shack6900.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eham.net\/reviews\/view-product?id=3069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.eham.net\/reviews\/view-product?id=3069<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.universal-radio.com\/catalog\/commrxvr\/6900spec.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.universal-radio.com\/catalog\/commrxvr\/6900spec.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UXP_u9vnDxI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UXP_u9vnDxI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rigreference.com\/rigs\/4682\/reviews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/rigreference.com\/rigs\/4682\/reviews<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The receiver doesn\u2019t seem to be \u201ctop notch\u201d yet, it\u2019s a good one, and I really love the look and the \u201cdrum dial\u201d at the top, also, the RME has an interesting history; it was founded by two hams and later on, after a merge with Electrovoice, it gave birth to the TEN-TEC company. RME apparently was only active for a relatively short timeframe and built rigs in pretty low quantity<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rigreference.com\/manufacturers\/rme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/rigreference.com\/manufacturers\/rme<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bottom line, do you have any further information about this receiver (or even own one)&#8211;?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m also curious to know if I\u2019m alone or if someone else here likes its look as much as I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Grayhat, who shares the following: The RME-6900: A Nice Boat Anchor from the sixties Let me start by thanking my dear friend Kostas (SV3ORA) since he was the one who sent me a link to the rig asking me if I liked it, and you bet, as soon as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,43,4796],"tags":[1146,7880,10209,681],"class_list":["post-56572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-vintage-radio","tag-boat-anchors","tag-grayhat","tag-rme-6900","tag-vintage-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-eIs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44043,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-allocchio-bacchini-rf4d-that-mystery-radio-from-the-last-man-on-earth\/","url_meta":{"origin":56572,"position":0},"title":"The Allocchio Bacchini RF4D: That mystery radio from \u201cThe Last Man on Earth\u201d","author":"Thomas","date":"June 28, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Andrew, who correctly identified the radio Ed spotted in The Last Man On Earth as the Allocchio Bacchini RF4D. 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