[Milsurplus] Auction alert

[Ray Fantini]

Speculation is this gear is from the collection of Vortex Joe, N3IBX. This all comes from the AMfone Web site, my source for this information.

Ray F/KA3EKH



-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth G. Gordon [mailto:kgordon2006 at frontier.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2018 1:21 PM
To: Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
Cc: MilSurplus List <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Auction alert

On 29 Oct 2018 at 14:57, Ray Fantini wrote:

>     I have no affiliation with the seller or auction company and know nothing about them but saw 
>     the link. They have several items that may be of interest including some BC-348 receivers, a 
>     couple ART-13 transmitters and a ATD along with other assorted Navy receivers.
>     One of the ART-13 transmitters has a home built power supply.
>      
>     https://www.aarbids.com/servlet/Search.do?auctionId=3029
>      
>     Don´t know if I will bid on anything or not yet. Sad to see all those big prewar Ham transmitters 
>     have so little interest

Thank you for this, Ray. I am very surprised at the number and kinds of equipment listed there, and at prices (probably beginning prices) which in my opinion are unusually low. 
Perhaps this site is not well-known.

There are couple of errors in the listings. For instance, an item listed as a Heathkit SB-640 remote vfo shows several photos of a U.S. Navy R-1490/GRR-17 radio, which covers at least from 2 - 30 MHz, AM, CW, SSB, and FM, and operates on 115 VAC 50-400 Hz.

I have never heard of this receiver and would like to know a bit more about it.

I am especially interested to see so many home brew transmitters from our early history. 
Amazing.

Ken W7EKB