[Boatanchors] Boatanchor gear at the Shelby hamfest (Dallas NC) yesterday & today

Tom B tbryan at nova.org
Sun Sep 4 14:02:47 EDT 2011


SC-901X is the correct model.  At one time, there were a bunch of these 
on the surplus market.  The big problem with them was it did not have an 
internal power supply like the R-1051/T-827.  The SC-901X was more like 
a URC-35 in that regard.  I have never seen the SC-910E exciter.

Tom Bryan
N3AJA

On 9/4/2011 1:46 PM, Steve Byan wrote:
> On Sep 3, 2011, at 11:35 PM, Ken Kaplan wrote:
>
>> Any idea what was used in the Titan II silos? I worked in them but can't
>> remember.
> I have a photo from the Titan-II missile museum. It's not quite high enough resolution to read the full number, but it's a "Receiver-Exciter SC-" followed by what looks to me like "901X". See<http://gallery.me.com/stevebyan/100360>  for a reduced-resolution view, and<https://files.me.com/stevebyan/e42oxx>  for the original JPEG photo.
>
> Best regards,
> -Steve
>> Ken
>>
>> On 9/3/2011 4:37 PM, Francesco Ledda wrote:
>>> That radio was used by the USAF in their Minuteman missile silos.
>>>
>>> Good catch!!!
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>> On Sep 3, 2011, at 6:12 PM, "W2HX"<w2hx at w2hx.com>   wrote:
>>>
>>>> this one caught my eye:
>>>> http://www.virhistory.com/ham/shelby-11/img_1074.jpg
>>>>
>>>> At first glance I thought it was either the R-1051 series or the T-827. But
>>>> when I zoomed in, the nomenclature was SC-910E exciter...What is this? what
>>>> did it go with?
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