[Milsurplus] T-179 / ART-26

Marty R's GI-stuff haunt [email protected]
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:42:53 -0500 (EST)


Google can't find it

http://hereford.ampr.org/millist/m4.html doesn't know.

Navy once did since it's s.n. NAS 622

I bought it @ a hamfest from an old guy 6 years ago &, excluding missing
tubes & a meter, it seems complete.

It's "modulator deck" had ~7 octals & 1 loctal plus an 829B.

Huge coaxial oscillator assy.  ~16" long & ~6" diameter.  Had octal-based,
radial-finned tetrode(?) in there. 

Front panel has N-type RF out & BNC 'Sync in' jack.

Old guy says there was a conversion* article on it somewhere in the 50s.  
Ham TV.

So guess it's ~300mc 200W TV tx to replace 1st prod'n AXT-7... the thing
with the 8025s.

Perhaps it's the UHF tv rosetta stone??

  Marty

*I've looked thru 30 years of Watchtowers & can't find any Jehovah
 Witness stuff on THIS conversion