[Milsurplus] Re: Milsurplus Digest, Vol 3, Issue 18

[Patrick Jankowiak]

Ahh the 18S1.

Now that is a fine radio!
I have one, but it is missing all the tuning (tank) coils that 
plug in, in the center. I have never found any, which is a pity.


Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:16:19 -0700
From: "Lloyd KK7IZ" <kk7iz at cox.net>
Subject: [Milsurplus] Conversions etc


Many moons ago I worked occasionally on the shrimp boats on the 
gulf. One of
the going radios was a thing built by a local named DuBose. He 
took the
Collins 18S1 aircraft transmitter, stripped it out and put the 
pirces in his
own case. Remote mounted the big dynamotor and ran it off the 
ships 32 vdc
mains. Did it ever run. One day I was in Houston in a surplus 
store on Old
Spanish Trail, at the curve. They were unloading a truck full of 
stuff and a
Texas Frog strangler was moving in. There was about a dozen of 
the Collins
boxes on the ground. Bought them all for a song, and I can't 
sing. Got my
money back on the first dynamotor I sold.
Those were the days.
Thanx
Lloyd  KK7IZ
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