[Milsurplus] Ready-Made Collection

[Mike A]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 10:48:14PM -0600, Raymond Cote wrote:
> Looked over the WWII offerings and could only identify s few items but there is sooooo much on the lower shelves too. 
> What is the yellow thingy?
> It looks like it had no controls like a radio should have.  

The yellow thing (two items to the left of the boxed Variac) is a Gibson Girl
distress radio transmitter. I have one. 

A hand crank goes into the top, there is a selector switch for an automatic SOS 
or manual CW keyed through a waterproof switch on the front. or a signal
light. http://www.wftw.nl/gibsongirl.html may be of interest to you, as may
the other articles on the SCR-578/BC-778 and AN/CRT-3. 

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Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin