[Milsurplus] Photo of Los Banos Naval radio station

Tue, 6 Jan 2004 20:45:39 -0700

where is the link to the photo?
ed sharpe
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From: "William Donzelli" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 7:30 PM
Subject: [Milsurplus] Photo of Los Banos Naval radio station


> Here is a quite poor picture of a picture of the Los Banos Transpacific
> Receiving Bench (great name). I did not want to break the spine of the
> book, so I took a digital picture (with typical results).
>
> Anyway, the receivers (from left to right) are Navy XW, RS-1, RF, RT,
> and some frequency meters I can't make out.
>
> As you can see, radios were small but long back then!
>
> XW was a one shot experimental unit. The others were made in fairly small
> quantities, maybe a couple hundred of each. I know at least two RFs
> survive (one at the AWA, and one on private hands thru Ebay some years
> back, but I am not sure who won it), but I don't know of any RS or RTs
that
> made it this far.
>
> William Donzelli
> [email protected]
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