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World War 2, Western Australia, Kingsley AR 7 Radio Receiver

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Communications Gallery - Centenary of Royal Australian Corps of Signals

Overview

The AR7 covered the LF and HF bands. The AR 7 has 5 plug in coil boxes. The coil boxes are: band A 140-405 kcs, band B 490-1430 kcs, band C 1.420-4.3 mcs, band D 4.25-12.5 mcs, band E 12.5-25 mcs. The Army version had an extra coil box covering 50-150 kcs.
The Kingsley sets were very robust, with a good span, but they were every heavy and thus difficult to relocate but were ideally suited for the static Australian based Australian Special Wireless Group monitoring stations.

Historical information

Howard Kingsley Love started the Kingsley Radio company in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1931. Kingsley Radio manufactured domestic radios, and special orders. The Royal Australian Air Force produced a specification for an Australian made high performance communications receiver. The Kingsley Radio company designed a receiver called the K/CR/11 and it was adopted as the AR7.
The Army adopted the receiver as the Reception Set No.1, The Army version like the example here had an engraved brass panel with a black background. Another version was made for the Dutch Navy with a front panel in Dutch. During World War 2, more than 3200 receivers were manufactured.
The Australian Special Wireless Group primarily used Kingsley AR 7 sets as exampled here with occasional use of HROs and AWA receivers.

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cwa-org-32-54-583

Australian Army Museum of Western Australia

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