[Milsurplus] Tuning the Bendix Skipper 135's Output Tank

[Hubert Miller]

Bravo for you, Dave, for actually putting one of these things on the air again.
I have taken numerous ones apart, but no longer am interested in even that,
as I have lots of parts and never done a thing with them. Recently I had 3 
boat radios that had been occupying space in my storage for years, and then
my van for some months. The demand for these, as you well know, is about
zero. I have even seen them given away at hamfests, while other dreamers
slap a price of $20 on them and vainly hope. Anyway, I finally transferred my
3, the 1960s style radios similar to yours, to a ham in Mineral, WA, who I was
told "really likes these and puts them on the air." Good enough for me ! What
happens when his tenure expires is anyone's guess and not really my problem,
altho I'd prefer they not become extinct. 
I still have some in storage that I do plan to donate somewhere. I have a big
Apelco, 100+ honest watts, with a separate dynamotor; 3 versions of PAR
( Pan American Radio, Seattle ) which were built using many recognizable 
BC-375 and Command Sets parts; a Jeff-Travis 'Model 25', kind of a ranch 
radio, which I want to trace out the schematic before I dispose of it. And also
a Northern 253, a prewar model that looks pretty cool, tunable receiver. 
Actually all the PARs and this Northern and the Jeff-Travis, I want to draw out
the schematic before moving them on. I have a big curiosity about in each 
different set, "how they did it". OH I just remembered I have an Intervox
( Seattle ) also, a neat small over-under style set from prewar, with an attractive
sliderule dial. Some of these manufacturers and others are practically unknown
today. There was a guy on a web host called "Angelfish" who displayed his 
2 - MHz boat radios collection on that site, but it seems he is no longer "active"
and his pages might no longer be up there.
-Hue Miller