[Milsurplus] A.E. Project ( If you accept this mission )

[Hue Miller]

Boys and girls, i am fishing for someone maybe interested in taking up a 
project that i am going
to abandon. I have a W.E. transmitter of the same type carried on Amelia 
Earhart's plane on the
last flight. I have no control boxes. They don't exist; i have only seen 
some fuzzy photos in old
Radio News magazines. So that's one thing. The other is, if the tubes 
are not good, you would
probably have to cash in some of your savings to try to buy 
replacements. The RF tubes, if i
recall, have some grid cap coming out the side as well as top. I do not 
have the matching W.E.
receiver, but i have an RCA AVR-7, which is similar in purpose and 
waverange. I was thinking at
one time this would be an interesting setup to put on the air, but i'm 
also thinking it would be
more sane for me to drop about 90% of my projects.
One  thing the advanced experimenter might do is load the transmitter up 
on a wire antenna
and try to measure the harmonic power output, say on the air freqs of 
3105 and 6210 fundamentals,
to try to get some numbers for the actual radiated harmonic power. This 
deals with the post-
disappearance radio signals reportedly picked up.
The transmitter is kind of big, i think maybe 18 x 15 x 10 ins. and is 
nothing to look at - just a
black box with flaking paint.
The receiver has a remote control box and short tuning cable, IIR ( have 
not  looked at it for
a long time. )
I also have a large poster of a Lockheed 10 coming in for landing on the 
beach on a small
island. I was going to offer the poster here free but i think better to 
bundle it with the above
equipment. The poster i got for contributing certain money to TIGHAR's 
Nikumaroro seach
expedition. I paid about $400 for the transmitter and i understand it 
would probably not be
possible to recover that. At the moment the equipment is in storage in 
another town and so
not immediately accessible. I am just kind of thinking out loud on what 
to do about this project and
maybe fishing for someone interested to take it up. Trade or sell.
-Hue Miller