[Milsurplus] Meissner 150-B Parts needed

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 5:00 PM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:
> Pure speculation on my part but I always thought that was produced for use in control towers or for locations that were along the line of what Land Mobile Radio eventually did after the war in fixed channel local communications systems? Cannot understand what function it would serve otherwise looking at it. Maybe as a Marine radio base but it just does not appear to be something that would want to be able to easily change frequency.
> Just curious on how far it tunes with the VFO? Would it cover 500 KHz?

The lowest scale on the VFO goes from roughly 1.35 to 3.35 MC. The VFO
is nothing more than the pre-way Signal Shifter with a taller cabinet
to accommodate a drawer for the coils (yep, the VFO uses a pair, too).
No idea what the intended use was but I'll bet it wasn't portable! I
like the control tower thought, though. I'll be paring it with a
mid-late 30s RCA AVR-11 tower receiver once it's making RF again. It's
even the same color.

I'm just baffled as to why anyone would modify a transmitter covering
- at a minimum - the 160, 80, 40, and likely 20m bands into a
monobander. In some places it looks like they made the holes with a
hand chisel, yet in other places they left original cabling and
hardware in place but not connected, in case someone wanted to put
things back? Strange.

Here's a shot of the VFO from above with the coil drawer open. The
coils had little tags glued on top but many dried out and fell off.
They need to be re-affixed. I actually have a second VFO w/coils that
I picked up the previous year for $10, in much better shape.

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