[Milsurplus] RAJ CBY-46046, AC Power Unit CBY-20040

[Hubert Miller]

I know nothing about the RAJ except what i just read.
The collector at the Puyallup hamfest had this, what i call “small format” RUGF supply, A.C. supply. NOT homebrew.

It had local controls and possibly only two connectors, one for trans and one for rec. It was quite compact, which

surprised me; hardly wider than the transmitter or receiver. He wanted a paltry $75 for it. I thought about it, possibly

to aggregate with other RUGF stuff i have, as a ‘selling value mulitiplier’ - - even though that rarely ever works out.

Or, i thought, maybe actually play with the RUGF gear. But i passed. Seller said he had the “large supply” at home;

the large supply runs ( powers ) both trans and rec but does require control boxes; my understanding is, it just 

supplies the LV and HV power. I was offered the ‘large supply’ back in Seattle around 1980; IIR, i passed because

the seller said the “only thing wrong with it was all the connectors had been removed”. I think that was why i 

passed; i think i would have bought it otherwise. I did buy the manual for it. The fact that the seller was happy to

sell the manual separately did not bode well for the survival of the unit. I do have the manual, but i really don’t

know where it is now. Yes – it does not have a Navy contract number – it was ‘local unit built’. ( What would be

a possibly better term for such equipment ? )  The unit in Seattle i would guess came out of NAS Sand Point

( Seattle ), a really wonderful Navy base right in Seattle on Puget Sound. I think that would have been good

duty, to be assigned there. Army Corps of Engineer tugboats were also, at least some, based there, as i recall now;

as a young beginner i toured one and asked about the crewman about the frequencies they used. ( large 

Northern Radio AM boat radio on one wall. ) 

The same fellow who offered the RUGF A.C. supply sold me a Japanese 94-6 one-tube walkie talkie. He told me

he found it at ‘Aircraft Equipment and Salvage’ in south Seattle ( industrial area ) where he said he found it one

step ahead of a bulldozer that was pushing up scrap metal.

BTW, some of the radios that came out of N.A.S. Sand Point have a really nice rubber stamp on the side, showing

a basic image of a PBY with legend “NAS Sand Point”.  Nice touch!

-H M 

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