[Milsurplus] Lighthouse radio beacons of the past ?

[MICHAEL ST ANGELO]

I toured the Overfalls Lightship in 2018. Here are pictures of the Radio Beacon and Ship-to-Shore radio.

The beacon is a Hallicrafters TB-142 Transmitter built in 1949. The Ship-to-Shore transmitter is a Radiomarine Corporation of America T-298/URC-7 with a MD-223/URC-7Z Modulator/Power Supply. The receiver is an RCA R-413/URC-7. The Overfalls had two Ship-toShore radios.

I strongly recommend touring the ship when in Delaware. Other interesting equipment include a RCA Radar and a Lionel Compensating Binnacle holding the compass.

Lewes is right down the road from Cape Henlopen State Park

Mike N2MS

On 12/02/2021 9:40 AM Ray Fantini <rafantini at salisbury.edu> wrote:



We have a Lightship museum over in Lewes Delaware and they still have the original LF Beacon transmitters. You can see it on picture “E” on this link. No idea what the transmitters are.


https://www.overfalls.org/VirtualTour.html


Ray F/KA3EKH


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