[Milsurplus] ChiCom 139A Companion Transmitter

[Bruce MacMillan]

  The 139 is a tube receiver. The little solid state rcvr is the 139B. 
According to Bill Howard's site the 139A is also a solid state rcvr. It 
looks similar to the 81C xmtr/rcvr pair.
http://www.armyradio.com/arsc/customer/pages.php?pageurl=/publish/Articles/William_Howard/North_Vietnamese_Army_Comms.htm

Ben Nock has some photos on his site.
http://www.qsl.net/g4bxd/foreign.htm

Bruce   ve7mt

On 8/11/2010 11:06 AM, Tom B wrote:
> I believe the 139 uses tubes and the 139A is solid state.  Correct?
> 102E uses the tube receiver.
>
> Tom Bryan
> N3AJA
>
>
>> I have the 102E receiver and transmitter.  I am wondering where the
>> designation 139A comes from for the receiver and if there is a similar
>> designation for the transmitter.  The name plate on my receiver has the
>> letters 139 followed by some Chinese characters, but the name plate on the
>> transmitter has only Chinese characters.