[MRCA] Space X launch

[jkarlow at comcast.net]

Mark –

 

Sorry you missed Project Mercury……I dug through my collection and found a couple of memories you might enjoy. Attached are pictures of the Collins 618V-1 HF Voice TR used on Project Mercury. This compact AM Transceiver was mounted on a shelf along side the astronaut in the Mercury Spacecraft. Note the two vacuum tubes used in the transmitter RF output. The Transceiver operated single channel just above the ham 20 meter band. 

 

I remember finding these at JA Brenners Scrap Metals on New York Avenue in Washington DC. They had the scrap contract for Goddard Space Flight Center.

 

Sorry about the loss of the hamfests but looking forward to better times this next year!

 

73

 

Jim

KA8TUR

From: mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Mark K3MSB
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 5:55 PM
To: Mkdorney <mkdorney at aol.com>
Cc: Military Radio Collectors Association (mrca at mailman.qth.net) <mrca at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [MRCA] Space X launch

 

Sure did!  I also remember Gemini and Apollo, but not Mercury.

 

73 Mark K3MSB

 

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 2:09 PM Mkdorney via MRCA <mrca at mailman.qth.net <mailto:mrca at mailman.qth.net> > wrote:

Hope everybody is watching the Space X launch from the Kennedy Space Flight Center right now. Reminds me of the Gemini launches when I was a kid. 

Mark D. 
WW2RDO



“In matters of style, float with the current. In matters of Principle, stand like a rock. “.   -   Thomas Jefferson 

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