[Hallicrafters] Vintage AM station makes the New York Timestoday!!

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Kepus" <ckepus at comcast.net>
To: <Ka9p at aol.com>; <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Vintage AM station makes the 
New York Timestoday!!


> Nice picture of Jac!  CW on a GPR-90 always makes one 
> happy. :-)
>
> Anyone recognize the two stacked units on the typing stand 
> to his right?
> Could they be audio gear?  There's a Heath something or 
> other on the shelf
> above that.  Looks like an EICO cap tester way up on a 
> shelf...  Simpson or
> Triplett multimeter.
>
> Whaddaya think the horizontally stacked items with two 
> bands, one on each
> end on the bookshelves are?  Recording tapes??
>
> Chris
> W7JPG
>
     If I am looking at the same thing you are its a 
Magnecord tape recorder.  These were very widely used in 
radio stations. Good quality but much cheaper and smaller 
than what Ampex had at the time.  I think the version shown 
is the PT-6 which had two heads. It was supplemented later 
with the PT-63 which had three heads.  The amplifier is on 
top the transport underneath.
     Next to the GPR-90 is a Heathkit 3" oscilloscope. I 
built one just like it, the first kit I ever built.  I think 
I still have it but couldn't find it when I looked recently. 
It may have gotten lost in some move.  The electronic key 
looks familiar but I can't come up with a name.
     Note the mechanical digital clock on the GPR-90.  BTW I 
think the GPR-90 is a better receiver than generally thought 
but it needs the GSB-1 or an MSR 5 or 9 to be a really good 
SSB receiver.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com