Oh! God, I wish you had put the whole precious/ now rare item, on a bench to unpack, to get one in, new condition like that must, have been a special opportunity. That radio saw service, in thousands of tanks and other military vehicles until the early 1960s. I was trained to use one in 1956, before joining my Armoured Regiment in Germany. I do hope yiur set survived to be, tested and working again… What a great purchase, but please unpack precious items like radios on a workbench. A very intriguing video.

The Wireless # 19 is quite special in a number of ways. Canadian built # 19's went to Russia. My husband owns one with both English & Russian labeling. The story of getting the plans to Canada is astonishing, filled with risk. The # 19 was built after Dunkirk, part of resupplying the British Army and for Commonwealth forces. It was likely the world's first transceiver. Besides transmit & receive in AM & FM it was, as a tank radio, equipped with an intercom, very necessary in a noisy army tank. The idea with the # 19 was to use widely available parts and looking at my husband's assembly was quick but adequate for a war time transceiver. It would be nice to have a mint one, my husbands # 19 was used by the Canadian Militia on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia for years & years after the war. It's rough but dripping with history. By the way, wireless # 19 people are special lovers of history and in our case the Canadian Army.

@althepal6818

2 жыл бұрын

19 set only transmit in CW and AM not FM.

As a communications engineer I am drooling over the sight of this magnificent radio!

@holdenlondon6944

3 жыл бұрын

I guess I'm kind of randomly asking but does anyone know a good place to stream new series online?

@garrettvan3192

3 жыл бұрын

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@darwinkingsley9878

3 жыл бұрын

@Garrett Van Yup, I have been using Flixzone for years myself :)

@holdenlondon6944

3 жыл бұрын

@Garrett Van thank you, I went there and it seems like a nice service :) I really appreciate it!!

@garrettvan3192

3 жыл бұрын

@Holden London Glad I could help :)

That # 19 is minty. You have been blessed. Internals would involve dried out caps. You have a choice to make, keep it completely original, don't operate it, or restore it and use it.

What incredible condition. Great job on this!

A new one. Amazing. I owned several WS19 in the 1960/70s (all Mk III) - when they were cheap and plentiful in UK and, NONE had been 'modified' from original. They made poor AM broadcast listening sets (the selectivity was kept deliberately wide) and the CW/BFO mode could only adequately resolve amateur SSB signals occasionally - IIRC, because of USB/LSB incompatibility in the 160, 80 and 40 meter ham bands. The sets were made everywhere; by five companies in the UK (including Pye, Invicta, ECKO and Murphy), by RCA, Philco and Zenith (at least) in the US, by Northern Electric and Rogers in Canada and by Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Ltd, down under. The US made Lend-Lease Mk IIs with the Cyrillic markings were never used in British service, being principally destined for the Red Army. I suspect many of those never made it there because they turned up, surplus, post-war, in huge numbers. Unusually, your radio is marked 'Signal Corps' - no 'Royal', so it's USASC. Lend-Lease radios for export were never so marked. All radios adopted into American did hav ethe Signal Corps markings. Not just the WS19 - I've seen WS18/WS68 manpack sets also marked as 'Signal Corps'. As far as I know, the US Army never actually used WS18 or WS19. I'm wondering if these particular sets were made for the Signal Corps for testing, evaluation or emergency reserve use.

@alastairbarkley6572

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry... 'adopted into American service did have the Signal Corps markings'.

As someone who collects these old sets, I am totally and utterly jealous! I do have a WS19 (a British Mk III), but of course not in anything like that condition. In the [highly unlikely] event of your ever coming across other "new-old-stock" radio kit from that era that would be surplus to requirements for your museum, I might well be interested in buying it off you for a fair price.

How interesting this radio with the spare parts that was still packed up! Was it used for artillery because I think that it was too big for the Sherman and quite complicated?

@lssah2025

4 жыл бұрын

This was the standard radio that went into British Tanks and Lend Lease tanks, Shermans, Fireflies, Stuart, Cromwell etc....Plus armored cars (dingo, Humber etc.) Also used in radio trucks, and base stations, so all around radio. Actually not complicated, morning dial in for tuning /frequency, has IC for intercom in vehicle, A and B set (short and long range), actually very easy to use.. I have them in my tank and armored car. I have had 5 kits like this (NIB) specifically for Sherman tanks.

@carlrudd1858

Жыл бұрын

THOUSANDS were made.....

Did you ever fire it up ?

here from the chieftains video, really impresed with the work done so far. are you accepting/needing donations to fund the project?

@sabotvideos1136

5 жыл бұрын

Send a message to here: facebook.com/FlakpanzerRestorationProject/

En que frecuencia opera este equipo ?

Is there a part 2 showing it being tried electrically?

@sabotvideos1136

3 жыл бұрын

Not yet, but we hope to do it!

@bill-2018

3 жыл бұрын

@@sabotvideos1136 Yes, that would be nice to see.

Just a note, RCA had a huge presence in Montreal Canada. Assuming RCA is US made is not an accurate thing to do. RCA can be made in both the US & Canada. The reason you own one of these is history, it will not perform to satisfy most hams.

@althepal6818

2 жыл бұрын

This set is a US made mk2 and not a CDN set.

Where are these unicorns found these days?

hmmm the germans used english radios in their flakpanzers? ;)

@sabotvideos1136

5 жыл бұрын

No, just a radio that is now under the possession of the restoration team that will be used on a future restoration project.

@Kannietwo

5 жыл бұрын

@@sabotvideos1136 Then do'nt label the video Flakpanzer Restoration.

@massivefins2597

5 жыл бұрын

@@Kannietwo its the flakpanzer team opening up a radio, very interesting video to see an amazing "new old stock" radio. that thing had to cost an arm and a leg...

A allied 19 set in a german panzer? lol

As much as I was interested in the subject matter, this reminded me of why I never watch unboxings; they are boring as hell.