[Milsurplus] Mystery Project-- Can you ID the Radio?

[John Flood]

I'm always on the lookout for 286- early Pentium, laptops.  I convert early synth. commercial gear to ham use and the config sw is always dos based.  some won't run faster than 12MHz processors!

John Flood
KB1FQG

 


----- Original Message ----
> From: "asmagal at fc.up.pt" <asmagal at fc.up.pt>
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Fri, January 29, 2010 8:41:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Mystery Project-- Can you ID the Radio?
> 
> What is really useful nowadays?
> Computers, maybe.
> But let me ask peacefully:
> 
> -Is there anyone still keeping with care and love a 286 or even a 386?
> 
> I also keep two useless APN-9. Waiting hopefully (among half a million
> of other crazy projects...) for some kind of 400 Hz inverter, just for
> the pleasure of seeing the Loran-A sweep pattern, even without any
> transmitter signal.
> 
> Antonio
> CT1TE
> 
> Quoting Ray Fantini :
> 
> > Yea, it's completely useless but being something that Mr. Smith had  
> > used for years and as important as Loran once was its great to see  
> > one up and running. Whether or not you can do anything with it is  
> > another matter. I saved a analog cabinet from a TV station I work at  
> >  because it has the exciter, up converter and 100 watt driver all in  
> >  the same rack and is a complete low power analog television  
> > transmitter. Being analog and on channel sixty its completely  
> > useless but I will keep it for a while and run it every now and then  
> >  into a dummy load. Not because it makes sense but just because I can.
> > Ray Fantini KA3EKH
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Not much good for anything other than parts, maybe.
> > It's for the old Loran-A service that was in the
> > 160 meter hamband and was decommissioned sometime
> > in the mid-1980s, if IIRC.
> >
> >
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