[Boatanchors] Parts

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Remember, as long as the parts or equipment is vintage, you can post it for 
N/C on the Hallicrafters web site.

www.w9wze.net

>From the home page find the link to the "Forsale-Swap' area, click on it, 
follow the instructions.

Good luck!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Knoppow" <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
To: "Bruce" <bsugarberg at core.com>; <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Parts


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bruce" <bsugarberg at core.com>
> To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 6:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Parts
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Clarance Tuska was a cofounder of the American Radio Relay
>> League.
>> The CD Tuska Company built a number of radio receivers,
>> and Tuska has
>> quite a few patents.
>>
>> From a 1923 advertisement: "Tuska sets are built under the
>> personal
>> direction of C. D. Tuska, a nationally known radio pioneer
>> and builder
>> of fine apparatus. For a dozen years Mr. Tuska has been
>> keenly critical
>> of all radio parts and sets bearing his name. As a result,
>> the Tuska
>> seal is recognized as a guarantee of the most thorough New
>> England
>> craftsmanship - and there is no better." (Popular Science
>> Monthly Sept.
>> 1923 pp 99).
>>
>> Here is a 1923 Tuska Superdyne Type 228 receiver:
>>
>> <http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-1923-tuska-superdyne-type-228-tube-radio>
>>
>> Here is a Formo-Densor Type J:
>>
>> <http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FORMO-DENSOR-TYPE-J-/170598884714>
>>
>> 73, Bruce WA8TNC
>>
>    Extremely interesting stuff. My mind played a trick,
> I've seen ads for Tuska stuff in very old QST's but the
> penny didn't drop until you posted this. For some reason I
> had not connected Clarence Tuska of ARRL fame to Tuska the
> manufacturer although it should have been obvious.
> Definitely red-face department.
>    A search at Google Patents turned up 18 patents between
> 1919 and 1971 issued to Clarence D. Tuska, presumably all
> the same person. The latter ones were assigned to RCA. The
> earlier ones have him living in Hartford CT, the later ones
> at Philadelphia but there are some assigned to RCA while he
> was in Hartford so I think all were the same fellow.
>
>
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles
> WB6KBL
> dickburk at ix.netcom.com
>
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