[Milsurplus] Mystery Item

[VE3UU]

Mystery solved.

Big Rob Downs is the winner although I must admit that George, KB0CE, 
was the first to come up with the model number. Robert filled in the 
details (as he often does).

Upon further inspection, two of the units have the UHF connector and two 
have the binding post so we've successfully identified they mystery 
items as being MP-65's.

Thanks gang. Great fun.
Brian
VE3UU



WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> Yep, you're right.  First time I looked at the photo something screwy 
> happened to the aspect ratio.  If Brian will confirm whether the 
> binding post is or is not removable, that will pin it down to either 
> an MP-65-B or -C (UHF connector on the bottom) or MP-65 or -65-A 
> (fixed binding post).
>
> In any case, these have gotten moderately hard to find as they were 
> officially used with the SCR-694 and AN/GRC-9 and not made in the 
> quantities that the AB-15/GR was.
>
> In a message dated 11/16/2006 11:05:37 AM Central Standard Time, 
> windy10605 at juno.com writes:
>> I got it, it's an MP-65
>> 73 Kees K5BCQ
>>
>> -- WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
>> The object on the top is a molded rubber cap that comes on all of the 
>> units
>> but usually gets trashed the first time it is taken from the box.  
>> The object
>> on the bottom is screwed onto the UHF connector.  It is an adaptor to 
>> convert
>> from coax to single wire, and was used with most of the WW-II sets.  
>> Sometimes
>> they came with NOS units but more often what came was a UHF-BNC 
>> adaptor.  And
>> a grounding ring, strap and clamp.
>
>
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