[Milsurplus] ?? re Southcom SC 102

[John Kolb]

The Southcom SC-102 was marketed and sold for maritime applications, 
although there's nothing to prevent them from being used on any fixed
frequency application. They were ordered specifying the desired
freqs, and the factory ordered and installed the crystals and tuned
them to freq, adjusting the taps on the pi network output inductuctor
as required. Main drawback now is the use of sweep tubes in the PA.

I may still have a manual for it at home - I was the production
engineer there for a year, until they were bought by Conic which 
was then bought by Loral.

They also built the SC-120, cyrstal controlled 2-10 MHz and SC-130
synthesized 2-12 MHz. These were paramilitary backpack transceivers.
Sold a lot of these to the goverments of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan,
etc.

John


---- Hue Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:
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> Southcom 2 - 10 MHz,  SSB transceiver, solid state, single-crystal per channel,
> LSB/ USB and with CW option ( why? ), why did the gov't ( GSA ) buy them
> and where used? The CW option is especially puzzling.  Has 120 AC supply
> in it.  All transistor except 2 final bulbs.  Tnx -  Hue Miller
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