[ARC5] Another marine radio on the ham bands

[Robert Nickels]

As a follow-on to Dave's recent posts about the Bendix, here's one you 
don't see often - a Sea Rad MM-50 made by Multi Products Company of Oak 
Park MI, aka "Multi Elmac":

https://tinyurl.com/4rjh4a68

The eBay seller I got this from said he was told it came off of a Great 
Lakes ore ship, but there's no proof of that and I haven't been able to 
trace it's original callsign.   But I fantasize that it's true and every 
year as 'the gales of November come early' the anniversary of the 
sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald prompts me to put it on the air.

I've used it on several local AM nets recently and there is a link at 
the bottom of the page above where you can listen to my check-in to the 
DX-60 Net today on 3880 kHz.    The audio is punchy and the band was 
starting to fade, but not a bad signal for 37 watts at a distance of 328 
miles a bit after 9AM at the recording location.

73, Bob W9RAN