[Central-Electronics] Unusual transceiver on eBay

[jetercreek]

Looks to be hand lettered to me.  The chassis stampings are also a little
irregular.  Homebrewed in the vein of the 1964 era Bill Orr handbook, 
perhaps?
Or a prototype.  Sure hope the buyer shares closer looks!

N0DBX



On 11/25/2014 02:33 PM, w7fe wrote:
> I wonder if we could get Wes Schum to look at these pictures? Maybe he 
> would remember having seen the thing. Nick might help with this.
>
> The tuning dial is certainly made using CE 100/200V dial parts --parts 
> which would not likely have been robbed from a complete CE unit in 
> 1959. I'm thinking that this must have been built by someone who had 
> access to CE parts and maybe their silk screening and other 
> manufacturing facilities.
>
> The stamped markings on the chassis rear apron are curious, though, 
> aren't they?.  CE didn't do that, at least on the 100V, but they may 
> have had the stamping equipment.
>
> And the "SSB Penetrator" ??Someone was not only a great engineer and 
> builder, he had an interesting sense of humor.
>
> W7FE
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Kepus" <ckepus at comcast.net>
> To: "'GRANT YOUNGMAN'" <nq5t at tx.rr.com>; 
> <central-electronics at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 11:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [Central-Electronics] Unusual transceiver on eBay
>
>
>> What an unusual situation:  As Grant and others have remarked, a 
>> beautiful piece of amateur radio's manufacturing art, clearly 
>> "Collins" quality, and yet, a mystery.  Seems like at least of one us 
>> old dogs would recognize it or have seen it in a CQ, Ham Radio, 73, 
>> or QST ad back in the 59-60 timeframe or on a desk in a MARS military 
>> installation. There's nothing currently on the web about it.  Will 
>> check the Wayback archives later today. Hope whoever buys it is "one 
>> of us" and will share their close up and personal discoveries.
>> 73,
>> Chris
>> W7JPG
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Central-Electronics 
>> [mailto:central-electronics-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of 
>> GRANT YOUNGMAN
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 10:49 AM
>> To: central-electronics at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [Central-Electronics] Unusual transceiver on eBay
>>
>> No question this is an interesting piece.  At least Collins quality 
>> construction, if not better — down to the chassis nomenclature 
>> markings being stamped instead of painted.
>>
>> Whoever the manufacturer was — it’s a beautiful piece of work.
>>
>> Grant NQ5T
>>
>>
>>> On Nov 25, 2014, at 12:17 PM, Pete Lancashire 
>>> <pete at petelancashire.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Very nicely done. Love to be able to see a underside picture.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Robert Nickels 
>>> <ranickel at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>> Someone posted this on the Collins list and I sure have never seen or
>>>> heard of one before:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/221614280450
>>>>
>>>> The seller obviously doesn't know what it is, nor do any of the 
>>>> Collins guys
>>>> thus far.   Some resemblance to Eldico, who built the S-line clone but
>>>> looking at the construction style, it reminds me more of Central 
>>>> Electronics
>>>> (100V) than anything else.     If CE ever built a SSB transceiver, 
>>>> this is
>>>> what I'd guess it would look like, but I'm sure they would have put
>>>> the CE name on it.
>>>>
>>>> 73, Bob W9RAN
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