[JMS] N9OO's Millen S/N List

[Don Buska]

Bob,

Here is my list.  I even put in the Solid-State Dipper as the Millen Dippers were 
considered top of the line so I'd love to know just how high they went up to.  I 
bet Ralph Jannini could provide some decent numbers for the dippers as I think he 
still has many NOS units, perhaps on the 92101 preamps too.  Ralph do you know if 
Millen maintained a strict serial number sequence?

Anyhoot here is my list:

90281   HV PS   #168      ; Version without Hi/Lo Switch
90501   Secondary Freq. Standard   #531 &  #1161 ;later is actually a 90505 w/Het 
Unit
90652   Solid State Dipper  #415
90711   VFO  #321
90801   Transmitter  #59
90810   VHF Transmitter #7 & #235
90831   Modulator  #199   ; Assembled from partial mfg'd unit - From JME*
90881   HF Amplifier  #435
90903   Scope 3" Tube  #362 & #496  ; Both have tube recifiers NOT solid-state 
(later version)
92101   Preamp  #63, #2032, #2073 & #5033

* JME - James Millen Electronics

Those darn preamps are all over the place.  Paid a few bucks for a couple of them.  
At those prices how could you pass them up.  The knobs alone are worth that kind 
of money, hi.

Another note on the dippers, Ed Tanton N4XY just bought S/N #1 of the 90651 grid 
dipper off eBay.  Along with S/N #6 of the 90751 Tone Modulator.  I wondered if it 
was truely the #1 unit and here is some of  what Ed wrote.

"On ebay, but from a W1 ham (Jack Richardson, KV1E) living near here, I have 
obtained Millen 90651 SN: 1 today; and am convinced it is genuine. This morning, 
Jack and I met in between our respective QTHs. Images of the unit can be seen at 
the sale page: 5788172077, including a close-up of the SN. My own examination just 
now indicates it is real, and not altered in any way I can detect. Also, it came 
with the 90751 Tone Modulator SN: 6 . Finally, Jack has had it for > 25 years, 
having obtained it in a hamfest fleamarket in W1."

Twenty five years ago would have been around the time that the James Millen Mfg 
Company was divided up into the three separate organizations and James leaving the 
company.  Perhaps this might have been a personal dipper of Jim's?
If you haven't visited Ed's Dipper website check it out at < 
http://www.n4xy.com/gdos.html> .
It's an interesting niche area of collecting.

73,

Don N9OO