Radio Manufacturing Engineers - RME - was one of the big boys in the
30's prior to WWII and immediately afterwards. Their RME 69 was a
high-end receiver widely used by leading stations all over the world.
Companions were the Hammarlund Super Pro, the National HRO and the
English receiver whose name I don't recall.
As I recall, the 4300 was their first "new" receiver after WWII. Seems
like it was a medium priced unit while they also came out with a new
high-end model whose nomenclature I cannot recall. It was a cosmetic
remake of the 69 mostly.
They also made the VHF152 VHF converter and a preselector/preamp model
which I used to have called the VHF 10-20. Quite a hot r-f preamp using
a couple of 6AK5's if I remember correctly. Would overload if you even
looked at it! <:}
Of course, that was in the days when receiver design was dictated by
"sensitivity" and front end overload capability was of little importance
and really yet to be discovered as being all that important. Most of the
"good" receivers had two r-f amplifier stages running full out for max
gain. Guess the bands were just not that crowded in those days, but it
sure seemed like it when you listened to 75 or 20 phone with all AM
stations!
I do not know, but the timing is such that I would doubt that Al Kahn
was involved with the original RME group. Perhaps he got into the game
postware.
Thanks for the memories!
72/73, George W5YR - the Yellow Rose of Texas NETXQRP 6
Fairview, TX 30 mi NE Dallas in Collin county QRP-L 1373
Amateur Radio W5YR, in the 55th year and it just keeps getting better!
Icom IC-756 PRO #02121 (9/00) Kachina #91900556 (12/99) IC-765 (6/90)
Howard Smith wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> As a new Novice in the early 60's, my first Ham receiver was the RME
> 4300. The receiver was build by the RME Division of Electro-Voice, Inc. of
> Buchanan, MI. I wonder if Al Kahn was involved directly with RME? As I
> remember, there was the RME6900, another HAM receiver that appeared around
> 1962, but then RME seemed to disappear. Could that disappearance have been
> the formation of Ten-Tec?
>
> On one of the early versions of the Ten-Tec Web page, there were several
> paragraphs that described a little bit of the Ten-Tec history, including
> the Knute Rockne story. Unfortunately, this did not remain on the web site
> very long.
>
> J. Howard Smith, WA9AXQ
> howard.smith@mixcom.com
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