[Milsurplus] interesting picture

[B. Smith]

    Never, never, never -    -    under estimate what a G.I. will beg, 
borrow, steal and then modify, to accomplished an assigned mission.
Adapt- Improvise - Overcome
k4che


On 8/4/2017 11:28 AM, Ray Fantini wrote:
>
> Would speculate that there is no way this would have happened at a 
> military installation, USCG was under department of Commerce at that 
> time so maybe they had more ability to swap and play around with other 
> radios. The thing I would wonder about is the issue of type 
> acceptance, would assume that no way would they use any radio that was 
> not type accepted and commercially built. Perhaps upon further thought 
> about the picture I have to wonder if this is an amateur station at a 
> USGC facility.
>
> Ray F/KA3EKH
>
> *From:*Michael Hanz [mailto:aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org]
> *Sent:* Friday, August 04, 2017 10:51 AM
> *To:* Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Milsurplus] interesting picture
>
> On 8/4/2017 8:50 AM, Ray Fantini wrote:
>
>     Stumbled across this image in a search on EBay, look at the
>     command transmitter. Was it commercial built?  EBay item #
>     201308536904
>
>
> Unlikely.  But it depends on what you mean by commercially built.  It 
> is a modified SCR-274N transmitter with balanced output, which says 
> that there are interior changes to match.  The adjustable inductor 
> inside the transmitter has been removed and mounted in the tuner above 
> the set.  I have a couple of these transmitters with that sort of 
> modification, but any ham that is a builder could have put this rig 
> together in short order.  I suspect it was made by a ham in the Coast 
> Guard, who would have had access to one of the machine shops to make 
> the job easier.  There are articles in ham magazines back in the 40s 
> and 50s that describe all of the mods necessary.
>
>
>     Assume the item next to transmitter is modulator and also like the
>     antenna tuner on top the transmitter.
>
>
> Yup, but if you look closely you'll see they used another command 
> transmitter chassis and built the modulator inside it, with a new 
> front panel.  It still has the snap off tube cover on top.  Both units 
> are sitting on a standard FT-226-A rack.
>
>           73,
>  - Mike  KC4TOS
>
>
>
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