[Milsurplus] DAV box

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Ray,

It is molded plywood.  The manual says so.  And even before I obtained a 
copy of the manual I knew that because some previous owner of my unit tried to 
force a standard MAB antenna into the mounting hole on the side of the case 
and broke it out at the top.  

In a message dated 10/26/2009 8:34:05 AM Central Standard Time, 
RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu writes: 
> Anyone know what the case of the Navy portable DAV transceiver is made 
> of? It almost appears to be wood but have no idea how it can be. There are no 
> signs of joints or anything else so would suspect it is some form of 
> molded material and being that it's sixty plus year's old and still holding up 
> that's impressive.  Every DAV I have seen has a green case built from this 
> mystery material. The MAB, the non direction finding version of the radio 
> has what appears to be a black Bakelite cast and wondering if the DAV is a 
> green variant of this.
> Ray FantiniKA3EKH

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