[Milsurplus] Radio converters

[Hubert Miller]

I think "converters" are kind of an interesting subject too.
I have a "passive converter" from the '30s, 1930s that is, a couple of the "Tunaverters ( would like to find one for the SW broadcast
bands ), some tunable CB converters, and the Ameco "first transistor converter".  I have never seen a channelized CB converter.
I have one CB converter that actually has the synthesizer front end of a CB radio. Oh and couple of those 'Western Radio, Kearney
Nebraska' converters - I like all Western's products. 
The 'passive converter' is a thing to supposedly give you the 1700, 1800 police stations on your home radio. The crudest of these 
seem to be just a broadly tuned circuit that subs for the original tuned RF front end. So you tune around with the "high image" of
the oscillator or even the second harmonic, and with a good outside antenna you hear the 1.6 - 3 MHz traffic all over the place with
no frequency indication and no image suppression. One device I have even has a wiring error, factory defective, couldn't work. I 
guess the owner thought he was using it wrong, just gave up, and put it away.
At one time I thought it would be cute & fun to use a car radio + converter and a Command Sets transmitter for a retro AM station.
Lots of crazy dials and so on. Well, it probably would be fun, but fun for someone else, I decided; I have to be practical about what
I can get done. 
-Hue Miller