[Milsurplus] 1918 Receiver IP-501

[COURYHOUSE at aol.com]

quite  correct Al!
 
I have  company history on united fruit co   here     I need to take  some  
time   and  read it  though....
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 4/26/2013 2:03:02 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
ark at ar88.net writes:

And  don't forget The United Fruit Company, as in banana boats with 
radios. -  Al

On 4/25/2013 11:41 AM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
>  REMEMBER>
> Wireless Speciality was  in on the  formation  of   RCA   along with  GE 
and
>  Westinghouse.
>   
> Wireless Speciality produced  the  I{-500 and  IP-501
>   
> Ed  Sharpe
>   
>   
> In a message dated  4/25/2013 8:13:48 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,
> ark at ar88.net  writes:
>
> Hi  Mike,
>
> They are not quite  vanishingly rare.  A fair number were  produced, and
> RCA  Radiomarine got involved, and sold and supported them  for years.
>  Legend has it that they survived on the Great Lakes  throughout  WWII,
> after they had been banned form the high seas do to   oscillator radiation
> concerns.
>
> I believe radios like  this were the  source of the low-radiation flap.
> It's a regen  without an RF  stage.  I once tuned it up on 600-meters into
>  a good sized  antenna.  I keyed the antenna lead with a relay driven  by 
a
> function  generator.  I could easily hear it a  kilometer away on a
> transistor  portable using the built-in  loop.
>
> 73,
> Al
>
> On 4/23/2013 2:42   PM, Mike Morrow wrote:
>> Dave wrote:
>>
>>>  WWI-era Navy  receiver:
>>>
>>>  http://www.ebay.com/itm/171028364143
>>   Al  wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>> Very nice   looking!  I wonder how many of these have survived.  The one
>  in
>> the cited auction obviously has not.
>>
>>  Mike /  KK5F
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Al Klase -  N3FRQ
Jersey City,  NJ
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