marine radio receiver, with matching 100w transmitter NC-101XA (some parts out, but have them)ġ ea. HRO (early version with silver dial)ġ ea. I have a collection of shelf queens, in various states of disrepair or disassembly:ģ ea. This may be one of those long term projects, since I have other irons in the fire right now. The restoration job will be a lot easier if I can find a manual or download one off the net. I suspect all that is wrong is that the grease has hardened. We'll see what happens overnight after the WD-40 has time to migrate over the moving parts. I squirted WD-40 into a hole in the gear box, but it didn't seem to do any good. The dial mechanism is spongy with a lot of backlash, and it looks like the entire tuning capacitor assembly must be removed to get access to the screws to open up the gear box, unlike the HRO and NC-100 series where all you have to do is remove the top cover of the gear box by taking out 4 screws. Someone oversprayed the beautiful National black wrinkle finish with ugly grey paint, and the plastic or glass dial cover is missing. It seems to be complete and in pretty good condition except for a lot of corrosion.

Wonder if they are down, or if the site has been taken down. I recall some time ago someone else was complaining that they couldn't gain access to the BAMA site. I found a link to the BAMA website for a pdf of the manual, but all I get is an error message 'server taking too long to respond'. I did a little web surfing and soon figured out that the LF/VLF receiver I picked up at Dayton is a National RBL or RBL-5.

Rbl vlf receiver