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Old 29-08-25, 02:46
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Well, you learn something every day, Canada manufacturing a clone of the British No.1 set. At least one Canadian built example has survived.

http://www.rcsigs.ca/index.php/Wireless_Set_No._1
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Old 29-08-25, 04:08
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My God! Could that have been built any bigger! What an awkward cumbersome radio. No wonder they kept developing better radio’s! Amazing the technology now in communications. I’m reading this and responding to you from my back yard in Manitoba,Canada right now sitting in the back yard by a fire having a whiskey. Bet that radio couldn’t do that back then!
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Old 30-08-25, 01:23
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Yes, the No. 1 set is a large heavy bit of kit. But at that time, it was no different to other types of mobile radio technology.

re: the pic. I like the heating arrangement and the logo ! Could do with that here ATM. Been below 0 C at night - I can see some snow in the distance, on the top of the local range , ski field ....

Some more pics from pre-war and early wartime Canada. The Ford car appears to be a standard roadster model, straight out of the showroom , but it was finished in army livery. A unusual choice for a army vehicle considering the limited carrying capacity.

A nice 36 Ford tourer .... with improvised antenna mount.

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A circa 1940 photo featuring two vehicles.

The first is a 1936 Ford Phaeton outfitted for wireless. "A" Squadron Royal Canadian Dragoons had two such vehicles, the Lord Strathcona's Horse had three and the Fort Garry Horse had one.
The second vehicle is a cab-11 8-cwt Canadian Military Pattern truck.
This photo date isn't known however the first vehicle has a 1940 Quebec license plate. In 1940 it's likely that the vehicles were outfitted with a Wireless Set No. 11 but when they were acquired in 1936 it would have been a Wireless Set No. 1.
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Old 30-08-25, 10:47
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Yes, the No. 1 set is a large heavy bit of kit. But at that time, it was no different to other types of mobile radio technology.
The preceding wireless sets were even bigger and heavier, with exposed valves mounted on wooden panels.

Wireless Telegraphy Sets 'A' (1925) and 'C' (1928)...

(There were some bigger and more powerful sets "120 Watt" and "500 Watt", I think (rating was the input to the entire set) that were built into wagons.)

Wireless Telephony arrived in 1938 with the W.S.1

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