Can you help me identify this?
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Can you identify this TX/RX? Old Military? Signal Corps?
- Thread starter Swarbee79
- Start date
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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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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