[Milsurplus] Cutaway PBY

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Mike,

No, it's different from most.  I don't have manuals on every model made from 
LM through LM-20 but based on those that I have, LM-7 on have a toggle switch 
for the crystal ref ON/OFF.  The unit in the PBY has a rotary switch.  LM-2 on 
have separate ON-OFF switches for FIL(ament) and PL(ate).  The one in the 
photos has a single ON-OFF switch.  And the knobs are rectangular instead of 
tapered and rounded.  I conclude that it must be either an LM or an LM-1.  Which 
means that it dates from 1936 or earlier.  Give its condition and that the 
radio transmitter (in similar new appearance) has been ID'd as an early model, not 
the common (and almost only model ever seen) GO-9, I conclude that someone 
must have gone to a lot of restoration effort.

In a message dated 3/29/2006 10:26:11 AM Central Standard Time, 
kk5f at earthlink.net writes: 
> >I am not familiar with the LM in the radio position.  It looks
> >different from any that I have had or seen.
> 
> How's that?  It looks just like every LM-* I've ever seen, including the 
> three that I own now.
> 
> Mike / KK5F
> 

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