R 1155 Lancaster Bomber Radio

I'm amazed by all the screws just on the front panel. No machine assembly here. Imagine the lady who had to put them in all day at the factory. Thanks for the video

My dad, who passed at 93 8 years ago - would have had this kind of equipment in his radio (ham) shack. At one point I had a "BC221" - a kind of frequency measurement device - which you used by zeroing out a hetrodyne tone from mixing an input signal with the built in oscillator. This is awesome

I bought one of these unused in crate back in the 60s . I built a seperate psu and 6v6 output stage . Beautiful reciever with lovely tuning control . Nothing like the feel and smell of old tube radios . I have quite a few tube radios . Much more fun than modern solid state recievers . There was a matching transmitter for that set 1154 series . Here in the UK back in the 60s there was masses of surplus equipment being sold for peanuts . Enjoy that set . It's a great find . Best wishes from Thomas .... Manchester UK .

Had one of those in 1970 when I was starting out SWLing. It was ww2 surplus, came in a wooden crate and wrapped in wax paper, had never been opened. I seem to remember it was not too much money, but as I had just started working, it took several months to save for it ! I have no idea what happened to that receiver, but someone got a good one. Have fun and enjoy your wonderful receiver collection. I still have a few here, including Racal 1772, Eddystone 958, TenTec RX340 etc. Alan, GI0OTC

Congratulations on the repair and recovery! Well done. Greetings from Arizona K8MB

you really cant beat a tube radio for shortwave listening. if they fixed and nice rebuilt tuned they are wonderful.

The Magic Eye, GREEN, eye, is present on many of my vintage test equipment, but not on any SWL radio.. Many vintage desk top tube AM radios have this type of magic eye... Personally it is a very cool feature... 🙂

Hi Nick, it looks good. I have 4 more currently in the workshop, one will be on the bay this weekend.

I’ve got an R1155E (Steel cased) in its original packing crate with all its jones plugs. It’s never been ripped apart. I carefully removed the wax from inside the old capacitors and fitted new ones inside the metal tube so as to keep the capacitors looking original in the radio. It still works well.

All you need now Nick is the airplane, nice peice of history, i just got a RG52a that does not work correctly, you are not the only one getting burned , it happens with old electronics as we know... thx. Matt

Nice to see one of these old girls again. I had a couple of these in the 1970's. Lovely old set's. They were manufactured by E K Cole (ECKO) here in Malmesbury UK. They were probably made extensively throughout the UK by different manufactures, during the war years as they were fitted to lots of different aircraft . I believe they were also used in tanks and Marine craft units depending on there R1155* suffix. Thanks for the video!

Our radio club at Garendon secondry school had one of these. Procured by our Science teacher Douglas Doughty who served in Bomber Command during the war.

Wow very nice, great to see it still working

i like the old analog. you get a better feel to find. just more hands on.

The Direction finding tubes were removed from most of them, it used a turnable loop antenna with a cross pointer meter connected to the R1155 which crossed pointers when the loop was on direction

Hi great video, I had one of these when I started swl when I started work , also rca ar88 too with matching socks speaker and had the proper tuning tools too. 73 mark G8rde

Marvelous! Still, I can't understand how on Earth you belived in the seller, selling a 80 year old radio that it really WORKS! If the tubes are not off for some reason, it will live to be 100!!!

There is a time signal on 3.330 KHZ called CHU in Canada there is also a web page for CHU giving listing of other frequencie. 3.330khz I have heard here in the UK

My 1st radio had 'Cat's Eye" tuning ... Nice find.

I had one a brilliant receiver on medium wave