[Boatanchors] Old mobile transmitter?

Bry Carling af4k at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 1 07:46:38 EST 2019


Fascinating Pete,

It would be great if someone put a web page tpogether with a list (and details where possible) of all those little companies!!!

73 - Bry AF4K

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Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2019 17:01
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Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Old mobile transmitter?

Web Electronics made two rigs in its short life (1951-52). There was the
Clamper and Junior Clamper. As far as I can tell, it was never sold as a
kit.
One ran about 25 watts peak and the other ran about 40 watts peak.
Lots of these types of rigs "mobile 10M", "mobile 10/6M", etc. were
hitting the market in the 50's.
Lots of people wanted to cash in on the American dream of being your own
boss and making baskets of money.
Most of these companies lasted only a few years if even that long.
A number of these rigs got their initial exposure in either CQ or QST
mags. as a construction article.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:47:22 -0800 "K5MYJ" <macklinbob at gmail.com> writes:
> In th e50'sand 60's AM was the mode for mobile operation. I think
> most used
> screen grid modulation. You would probably need to get a group of
> tinkerers
> together to make this stuff useful.
>
> I remember also building one the worked on the broadcast band. We
> could talk
> to girls at the drive-in on Friday and Saturday nights.
>
> I do remember cases of the T-17 microphone being used as the cathode
>
> resistor of the speech amplifier. T-17's were plentiful and cheap in
> those
> days.
>
> I have a 12V vibrator transformer but no vibrator. The transformer
> gives
> 165V.
>
> Vintage 12V solid state car radios are more common than vibrator
> powered
> radios. But they don't have any HV.
>
> I've been thinking about changing the tubes in my Gonset converter
> to 12V
> space charge tube to used it with a 12V car radio.

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