[Milsurplus] puzzler - module with glass rod?

[Nick England]

Well, I thought it was a very peculiar device, but that surely someone here
would pipe up and say - "Oh that's the flux capacitor used in the
turbo-encabulator section of the AN/BBW-2. Fair Radio used to have plenty
of them."

Whatever it is, I believe it is clearly out of my focus on USN ship/shore
communications equipment. I have a zillion projects I should be working on
so I am desperately trying to avoid getting fascinated enough to spend time
tracing the circuit, checking for resonance, etc.

I propose sending it to Peter's lab on three conditions
1) If that rod is actually made of diamond, he'll send it back to me.
2) He'll tell us what he finds out.
3) If someone pops up and really really needs it to make his AN/BBW-2
operational, he'll let it go.

Howzzat???

Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Peter Gottlieb <kb2vtl at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a full lab including VNA so would characterize that component as
> well as the surrounding circuits if I had it here for a bit.
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> Peter
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> On Apr 6, 2016, at 9:10 AM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:
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> Never in the field of military radio collecting have  so many speculated
> so much on so small an item.
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