[Milsurplus] ARB surplus dealer conversion on Ebay ?

[Ray Fantini]

AN/URC-7 if it’s not the size of a Yugo it weighs as much! The big issue would have been obtaining the 120 Volts DC at a thousand amps to run it.



From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of MICHAEL ST ANGELO
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 2:43 PM
To: Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com>; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] ARB surplus dealer conversion on Ebay ?


During my college years in the earlu 70's I repaired AM Marine MF radios. The radios were usually in good shape; I spend most of my time matching the transmitter output circuit to the whip antenna. This had to be performed on the board and I remember adjusting the trimmer capacitors and Air-Dux coil taps for each channel.



I was looking for some information about Marine MF radios and came upon this history of a West Coast Marine electronics company:



<">http://www.rodgersmarine.com/history.htm><http://www.rodgersmarine.com/history.htm>



In paragraph 10 they describe the prichase of a boat in 1956 and state  " Located in the bow of his boat was a military surplus six channel AM transceiver the size of a Yugo."



Does anyone have any idea what that radio could have been?




Mike N2MS





On February 20, 2017 at 1:23 PM Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com<mailto:Kargo_cult at msn.com>> wrote:

It looked to me that this ARB was first a surplus dealer conversion ( maybe the local tuning) with the rubber stamped band “content” marking. I can’t see the hamifier doing that, can you really?

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