[Boatanchors] What is this military receiver?
Glenn Little
[email protected]
Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:55:39 -0400
Greg,
From the frequency range and the connections on the back, it appears that
you have a telemetry receiver. THe bandwidth of the if may be too wide to
recover much audio from today's narrow band transmissions. Also stability
my be an issue. This receiver may have never had a AN designation as it
was probably built for a special project. It coulf have been a ground
station receiver where the telemetry was brought directly from the device
to the receiver via coax, or it might have been an off the air telemetry
receiver where it received real-time telemetry.
Hope that this helps some.
73
Glenn
WB4UIV
At 11:45 PM 7/23/02 -0400, Greg Miller wrote:
> Hi all!
> I picked up a military receiver at a garage sale today and I need some
> help identifing it (the id plate is missing).
> It's a rack mounted receiver made by Clarke Instruments (Div. of
> National Electrical Machine Shops Inc., Silver Spring, MD) which covers
> 175-260 MC. It has the following controls: audio gain, power, AFC (off,
>on,
> external), fuse, op/stby, tuning (including a gear driven disc scale
>above),
> a speaker on the front panel and two meters (made by Burlington) for tuning
> and signal strength. It has a date code on the back of June 5, 1954. The
> back panel has the following: input jack (so-239), ac, ext. afc(screw
> term.), ext. meter(screw term.), recorder(screw term.), 10mv adj.(pot),
> recorder f.s. adj.(pot), disc. bal.(pot), panoramic output (bnc), and
>output
> (so-239). It has the following tubes: 6J4, (2) 6AK5, (3) 6CB6, 6AL5, 6J6,
> (3) 12AU7, 5V4G, and a VR-150. There is a schematic on the bottom cover
> that says "Model E".
> Can anyone tell me the military model number or any other info. for
>this
> set? I can email some pictures if that would help.
>
> Thanks and 73,
> - Greg
>
>
>
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