[JMS] Millen 90711 VFO

[Bob Sullivan]

Evening, Don,

The guy with all the KW-1's is around 90 yr's old and won't sell any. Sigh.

I agree with you! I don't think Millen made a LOT of these items and I also 
doubt that serial numbers started at #1. Collecting info is always very 
interesting.

Great - send your info and I'll add mine as a start. I'll then figure out 
some sort of table to display all the info and we'll get going. Should be 
fun. Let's start with a listing of that equipment we want to have on the 
registry. Here is my initial list ...

90881 Amp
92101 Preamp
90831 Mod
90711 VFO
90903 scope
90902 scope
90923 scope
90800 xmtr
90801 xmtr
90281 HV PS

... what else ... ? Before we get too ambitious let's concentrate on 90801, 
90711, 90831.
In any case, send all your info!

Gary, Jim - send your data too!

73, Bob
WØYVA
Personal site: http://www.isquare.com/personal_pages/ras-hardware.htm



At 11:55 PM 7/20/2005, you wrote:
>All fine on this end Bob.  I'll gather up all my Millen equipment S/N's 
>and forward them over to you.  Funny I was just looking at your KW-1 table 
>today.  I was surprised to see one guy has seven (or was it six) of 
>them!  If I had that many KW-1's I'd sell them and pay off the mortgage, hi.
>
>As Gary mentioned I think the transmitters, modulator and amplifiers would 
>be of interest to the general ham population.  I don't think most people 
>are aware just how few, in relative terms, some of these pieces really 
>are.  I'd be surprised if the 90801 transmitter and 90831 Modulators went 
>much above 200 pieces each.  Considering that low number it's surprising 
>how many are still around.  Just with the numbers being passed around 
>today it seems like the 90711 were made in much higher numbers compared to 
>the aforementioned items.
>I'll send S/N's for all my stuff, including my frequency standard units 
>and scopes.  At least having the numbers out there will provide a 
>reference, even if not published on the website.
>
>73
>
>Don
>
>
>Bob Sullivan wrote:
>
>>Gary,
>>
>>Thanks, guys.
>>
>>Keeping a registry of the rare Millen items is a great idea. I keep a 
>>Collins KW-1 registry - see here:
>>http://www.isquare.com/personal_pages/kw1-list.htm
>>
>>Nothing fancy - no database required; just a simple HTML table. I'll 
>>happily do this for the 90711 as a start to see how it goes. I can keep 
>>it on my site and reference it from the JMS site; eventually the entire 
>>JMS site will be available from my server (kind of a mirror) for faster 
>>response. (Don, okay by you?).
>>
>>Later on I'll post a listing describing the differences between #150 and 
>>#330. There are more than you might think. Hi.
>>
>>73, Bob
>>WØYVA