Can you identify this TX/RX? Old Military? Signal Corps?

[Swarbee79]

Can you help me identify this?

 

[BC Coyote]

Can you take a closer picture of the front panel ? Can't really tell what it is, but it does appear to be some sort of military transceiver from 1950's or early 60's; ........
Don't see a big tank coil so probably not HF, maybe a Lo-VHF rig.

 

[nomadradio]

Highly modded homebrew adaptation. Don't recognize the original model or type before it was modded.

Don't see a power supply. The empty space at the rear has a 8-pin Jones plug that probably connected to a dynamotor. It would have served to provide B+ and filament voltages. The push-pull final visible looks like a 829A.

Power supply was probably external after the conversion.

An airborne VHF radio would have a modulation transformer. Don't see one.

The tuning dial is a pre-WW2 dial, I think from National. Leads me to suspect it was converted from crystal to tuneable recieve, maybe?

Reminds me of a military airborne transceiver. The push-pull 829A (I think) final tube suggests it was meant for 100 MHz or higher. 60 years ago AM was popular on the 2 meter band. Pretty well gave way to FM and repeaters by the mid-1970s.

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