[Milsurplus] You Rich Boys Better Jump On It....

[Al Klase]

This appears to be an IP-501 from 1918 with about 5 inches sawed off the 
right side.  I guess I should be glad mine is reasonably intact, even if 
it has a bunch of cobbled up parts.
http://www.njarc.org/rtm/Regen_Inages/IP-501-2.jpg

Al

On 4/23/2013 1:00 AM, Mike Morrow wrote:
> Dave wrote:
>
>> WWI-era Navy receiver:
>>
>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/171028364143
> One with a miniature tube added.  What could the fellow who
> modified this thing been thinking?  This unit would have been
> rare even before the first miniature tube was ever made.
>
> As far as WWI electronics, I'll have to be satisfied with my
> 1918 SCR-54-A (BC-14-A) crystal set.
>
> I doubt that any -A models made it to the AEF before the Armistice,
> but I've read that the earlier SCR-54 did see WWI field use with
> artillery regiments for one-way communications from spotter aircraft
> that used the SCR-65 (BC-15) miniature quenched-gap spark transmitter.
> This has been claimed as the first ever use of aircraft radio
> transmission.  It almost certainly is, at least for military aircraft.
>
> I've often wondered if my grandfather's unit, the 3rd Division,
> 18th Field Artillery, used the SCR-54.
>
> Maybe some day I'll get the matching SCR-65 transmitter.
>
> Mike / KK5F
>
>
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Al Klase - N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
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