[Boatanchors] HOLY %^$#* (was: Why is this attracting so much attention?)

[manualman at juno.com]

A number of amateur radio companies in the 60's made a last ditch effort
to stay afloat by trying to design/introduce sideband transceivers to
market. They included Sideband Engineers(founded by Faust Gonsett),
Johnson, Multi-Elmac, Hammarlund, Heath, and many others. Some survived
to produce saleable stuff; others faded at the starting gate. Japanese
companies were also hot for this stuff. Personally, spending over $4K for
unknown equipment(of possible questionable origin), undocumented, and
possible non-working (no power supply) verges on one with insanity
dollars.

I was happy when I only spent $20 for my Frontier (no model number on it
either) HF hybrid transceiver back in the late 90's. No documents and it
never worked either. Looked great, weighed a ton, had pretty knobs, and
that was about it. After diddling with it for several months with only
marginal success, I donated it to a local club on auction night. 

Pete, wa2cwa
 
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:02:39 -0800 John King via Boatanchors
<boatanchors at mailman.qth.net> writes:
> I hope whoever  bought  it will be kind enough to tell us what it is. 
> Apparently, the seller didn't even know. I agree with you, I think 
> it is a prototype.Morrow built a prototype SSB transmitter that 
> looked just like the MB6 attempting  to the tease pictures put in 
> QST back in 1960 0r 1961. That was just a transmitter, not a 
> transceiver when transceivers were becoming the thing to buy . Still 
> curious. 73, John, K5PGW 
>