[Milsurplus] Japan Tokyo Musen Handy

[Hue Miller]

I thought about that one for a while, before dismissing it and moving on.
Interesting maybe, but not really usable, or usable with great difficulty.
Anyway, my offer would have been a couple hundred less than it sold for,
so moot.
My criterion has become fun per dollar in actually powering up the device
and re creating its original operation, rather than some purely displaying
something, no matter how rare or significant or whatever.
The thing that's unattractive to me is that the design  represents real 
1920s
tube scarcity primitiveness.  The RF tube, regen detector - vfo IIR, is 
totally
switched between tuned circuits by some complex arrangement of switches.
Like moving the vacuum tube between two circuits. The single tube vfo
transmitter operates up to 12 Mc/s. You can imagine with no sidetone,
no netting, no frequency stabilization, and poor dial resolution, just
how effective the unit was.
What surprised me was that I saw in the photo, the antenna insulators.
That is unusual. I have a really beat one, a near wreck, but it does have
the front cover and the key.
There do seem to be a few of these about, unlikely as that seems.
-Hue Miller