Canada’s CHU time station to close

[CTListener]

I had (still have somewhere) a Patrolman 6, then moved up to a Patrolman 10. Also had a crystal-specific scanner. Picked up the final version of the Zenith TransOceanic a few years ago. A Drake R8B remains on the wish list.

There was an identical-looking aeronautical version of the pocket-sized Patrolman that covered 118-136 mHz, IIRC. Never had it or the Patrolman, as I only got into scanning in the '80s with a Bearcat 800 mHz-capable (unblocked) scanner. Great listening on those cellphone frequencies until the landscape changed.

I had a Transoceanic, too, a Royal 3000-1, that I got for my bar mitzvah in the late '60s. Fantastic radio for SW broadcast and medium wave at night, but the FM was prone to overloading, and it had no BFO for single sideband reception. Did the Transoceanic ever add a BFO before going out of production?

 

[tvnut]

The R 7000-2, introduced in 1981, has a BFO. Big help on fine tuning.

 

[yeoldeschool]

There was an identical-looking aeronautical version of the pocket-sized Patrolman that covered 118-136 mHz, IIRC.

The Patrolman product line had an often similar-looking companion line called the Astronaut. Curious if this Astronaut-5 might be what you're remembering:

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There was also an older version of the Astronaut-5 which looked more 1960s.

I had (still have somewhere) a Patrolman 6, then moved up to a Patrolman 10.

This version? I would have gone nuts for that in my youth.

The Patrolman-6 and Astronaut-6 receivers were more two examples of visually similar units. And I believe the Astronaut-8, a mint example of which is shown in this video, was the functional equivalent of the Patrolman-9:

Picked up the final version of the Zenith TransOceanic a few years ago. A Drake R8B remains on the wish list.

I love the appearance of the L600 version. The Drake would be wonderful to have if only there were still shortwave programming of equal quality to hear.