[Milsurplus] A couple of matters....

[howard holden]

Hi Ken, Rob Flory K2WI runs (or ran) a TCK for a number of years. Might be a good resource for you. He's got a page on Nick England's Navy Radio site. Good luck with it.

73 Howie WB2AWQ 

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> On Apr 13, 2017, at 11:18 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
> 
> which I hope some of you will find interesting.
> 
> 1) So far, in my search of several places, including past issues of ER Mag, I find no defintive 
> articles on putting the TCK on the air. I will receive "my" TCK-4 in late April and intend to 
> begin working on it immediately.
> 
> Therefore, I'm going to do it on my own, although I think I'll prepare an article for ER Mag 
> detailing my procedure. Some may find it of interest.
> 
> 2) In the several tons of radio gear, mostly receivers, I received from the estate of an old 
> employer with whom I worked in the 1970s, one particular receiver is, at least to me, 
> extremely interesting! It is an all solid-state receiver of a type which was used, apparently, 
> by the FBI. This receiver has no RF amp stage, but its specs are very high, and it uses a 
> series of pie-shaped modules, each of which contains one frequency-determining unit. The 
> band switch also mechancially rotates a large plate which can contain up to 12 of these 
> modules. Thanks to someone on the ARC5 forum, I obtained a manual for this receiver 
> which the seller found in a dump and rescued.
> 
> That receiver is in the queue to be restored, and I intend to write an article on it for ER Mag.
> 
> Later,
> 
> Ken W7EKB
> 
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