[Milsurplus] 1905 Aircraft Radio

[J. Forster]

Is it specifically listed or is it just omitted?

-John

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> The Avitron RT-17/b Radio is listed as being a no longer acceptable radio
> in an FCC 1997 bulliten. But what the hey 92-years would be fairly good
> service right?
> ---- jcoward5452 at aol.com wrote:
>
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> Maybe it's supposed to be 1965?
> Jay
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Fantini <rafantini at salisbury.edu>
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 6:41 am
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] 1905 Aircraft Radio
>
>
>
> I can't believe you people, this radio is a rare example of someone
> resolving
> the problems of air to air and air to ground communications before the
> development of the modern airplane, perhaps it was intended for hot air
> balloon
> operations? This may be a military radio developed shortly after the Boer
> War to
> replace those cumbersome telegraph lines from observation balloons to
> ground.
> Not to mention that it is a example of the development of the DC to DC
> solid
> state inverter, miniature multi grid tubes and PVC covered wire a full
> fifty
> years before their commonly accepted development. This alone is worth the
> eighties grand! And this resolves once and for all the development of VHF
> AM
> operation well before the common use of long wave or HF frequencies.
> Ray Fantini KA3EKH
>
>
>
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