[Milsurplus] WW2 Beachmasters (PAB-1/PAM-1)
Dave Ragsdale
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Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:17:59 -0800
You're right on the 836 rectifiers. Here's our web page with pictures
of the current installation of the speakers. Click on the link for a
close up:
http://www.multimedia.calpoly.edu/ims/media/bigvoice/
Dave
KF6BOM
Marty R's GI-stuff haunt wrote:
>
> I won 6 of those beasts at auction as a kid from Wright-Pat's Gentille AFB
> materiel section. Made a modulator from 1, traded two to Xavier
> Universtiy for a semester book inventory & some radar filament xfrmr.s.
> Other 3 assimilated into the Cincinnati ham community.
>
> Were very neat.
>
> Lotsa Beachmaster systems in D-day footage & they mighta been mounted on LSTs!
>
> I've never seen a trumpet - & I think they clustered in groups of 6 &
> that from the movies.
>
> Gotta go see that current install mentioned here recently!
>
> Oh & hey I think the rect.s were H-V 836s rather than M-V 866s. Did you
> read 'think?'
>
> Marty
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Dave Ragsdale
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