[Milsurplus] national 1-10

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The manual is TM 11-2403.  Which I unfortunately don't have.  But someone 
may.

In a message dated 6/16/2009 6:22:11 PM Central Daylight Time, 
nick at virhistory.com writes: 
> Phil's right - I got more info from Geoff WB6NVH who says:
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> That receiver is the Bendix-Frieze Div. radiosonde receiver, which is an 
> R-17A, part of AN/FMQ-1.
> 
> Bendix bought the National 1-10 assemblies from National and built them 
> into 
> this chassis.  The R-17A is built into a large rack cabinet with strip 
> chart 
> recorders and other stuff, hence their never being found with cabinets 
> now. 
> An AC power supply and an S-meter circuit was added.
> 
> They were supplied only with the 58-88 MHz coil set, or whatever the coil 
> set was that covered 70 MHz, although you can theoretically use any 1-10 
> coil set since the front end is identical.  These receivers were used most 
> 
> extensively during the Berlin Airlift and won praise from the military 
> during that year.
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "phil" <signetics at netzero.com>
> To: <Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:28 PM
> Subject: [Milsurplus] national 1-10
> 
> 
> >greetings all
> >If memory serves me right, the receiver is a National 1-10 modified for
> >radio
> >sound use. I used to have one a long time ago. It picked up the radio 
> sond
> >units. The audio was sent to a audio frequency meter. The output was
> >recorded. The data was temperature, humidity and air pressure.
> >
> >I could be wrong. It's been a long time since I had this type of 
> receiver.
> >Phil
> 

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