[Milsurplus] Rare (?) TR-4B (not Drake!!)

[Hue Miller]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Morrow, Michael A." <mamorrow@tva.gov>
> I'd sure like to have one of those 5-meter-band 60-year-old Abbot
> TR-4s, just like those that appear in QST ads from that time,
> but the eBay item under current debate about its function is
> definitely **not** such a TR-4.  It almost looks to me like
> a landline handset terminal, probably 1950s vintage or later.
> Mike / KK5F

I don't remember mentioning Abbot TR-4 for a long long time,
so i kinda wonder what the reference to me and Abbot refers
to.
However....
The TR-4 and similar don't seem to bring too high prices, so
they seem to be affordable, when they do come up.
This item on the auction block, i also thought it was a remote
control for a transmitter, BUT....it has volume, antenna tuning,
and antenna loading. No channel control. So it's some kinda
xcvr. I do not think it's superregen, and with the loading control,
i would surmise it's somewhere in the 3-50 MHz region.
Hue