[ARC5] [Milsurplus] History of the GO-series of USN Long-Range Transmitters

[Mike Morrow]

George,

Do BOTH of the GO-series transmitters shown in my posting looks different from your GO-6?

1.  The GO-9 shown here:  http://aafradio.org/flightdeck/go9.htm ?
2.  The GO-unknown shown here:  http://tlbigley.com/Cutaway%20PBY/int-07.html ?

Or, does neither picture show the unit that you own?

I'd really really love to see as many pictures as you care to send of your unit.  If it is not a GO-9, then you have one very very rare unit.  Readable pictures of the nomenclature plates would be wonderful as well.

For the unit pictured at the PBY-5B cutaway at http://tlbigley.com/Cutaway%20PBY/int-07.html an examination of blurry blown-up pictures of the GO-unknown name plates seem to show a manufacturer name of two words.  That would limit the possibilities to the 1939 General Electric GO-6, 1938 GE GO-4, or 1935 Western Electric GO-2 as its identification.  However, the PBY-5B is a post-1940 aircraft, making any of those possibilities less likely.  Of the three possibilities, the GO-6 would therefore be most likely.

Your input here is very valuable.  You may have the only GO-set in private hands that is not a GO-9.

Thanks!

Mike / KK5F

George wrote:

>Well, that transmitter doesn't look anything like the one I have with the 
>G0-6 tag on it that I have.  It is about half burried but maybe I can get a 
>picture of the front of it.  However, so far I have been unable to post 
>pictures on this reflector.
>
>73,
>George
>W7HDL
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at earthlink.net>
>>
>> The 1940 Westinghouse GO-9 is the most common, by far:
>>
>>  http://aafradio.org/flightdeck/go9.htm
>>
>> Even GO-9 instruction books are common.  But...
>>
>> Everything else appears non-existent...except maybe this one:
>>
>>  http://tlbigley.com/Cutaway%20PBY/int-07.html
>>  http://tlbigley.com/Cutaway%20PBY/int-06.html
>>
>> The story of the associated PBY-5B is told here:
>>
>>  http://tlbigley.com/Cutaway%20PBY/
>>
>> The large transmitter is definitely earlier than the GO-9 one would expect 
>> to find on a PBY-5B.  Close examination of the nomenclature plates seems 
>> to show the manufacturer's name as two words...making it most probably a 
>> 1939 General Electric GO-6.  Some support for that possibility comes from 
>> the radio listing for a PBY-5A shown here:
>>
>>  http://aafradio.org/docs/Navy-radio-gear-1.GIF
>>
>> Mike / KK5F