[NJARC] [Fwd: Radio ID Help]

[John Ruccolo]

WOW! I'd love to see us (NJARC/INFOAGE) get it. But it
would be nice on a Liberty Ship, wouldn't it (*if*
they really want it, that is).

Sounds like another Landscape Trailer Excursion!

Can it possibly weigh MORE than an RCA BTA-250? I'll
bet it can!

--- Al Klase <al at ar88.net> wrote:

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> John,
> 
> Per another list:
> 
> QUOTE
> 
> Hi,
> 
> That is a radio console built by MacKay Marine
> (later called ITT MacKay Marine)
> for U.S. Liberty Ships/ Victory Ships during WWII.
> It consists of an MF transmitter with plate
> modulator
> for class A-1 and A-2, and a separate HF transmitter
> for A-1.  Both transmitters commonly shared the same
> HV power supply.
> There are two separate receivers for voice/c.w., one
> for HF and one for MF/LF.  The equipment was
> intended for use with long wire antennas
> aboard ship, and the antenna couplers are built into
> the transmitters.
> 
> The HF c.w. marine bands were at 4, 6, 8, 12 and 16
> Mc.
> 
> Later versions of this equipment used a pair of
> 813's in the final
> of both the MF and HF transmitter, and were rated at
> 500W output each.
> I believe the final DC input voltage was kept down
> during
> the WW II period for a rated output of 250W.
> 
> The console also includes a small emergency
> transmitter,
> powered by a 12VDC input dynamotor, 
> and equipment to send/receive the Autoalarm
> signal on 500Kc (a long sequence of four-second
> dashes/ one-second spaces).
> 
> 73,
> Ed Knobloch
> 
> END QUOTE
> 
> Do you think we should go get it?
> 
> Al
> 
> 
> 
> 
> John Ruccolo wrote:
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> > Upon further review, it looks like two Mackay
> > receivers side-by-side on the bottom, with the
> > transmitter(s) on top.
> >
> > --- John Ruccolo <jr6v6gt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
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> >> WOW!! The reciever is clearly a Mackay -- I
> >> recognize
> >> it from the Osterman book on comm rcvrs.
> >>
> >> I'll bet the whole thing is Mackay -- they were
> >> known
> >> as Mackay Radio and Telegraph at one time. That's
> >> probably where the poster got "telegraph" from.
> >> Mackay
> >> made a lot of shipboard transmitters and
> receivers,
> >> and eventually became ITT Mackay Marine.
> >>
> >> JR
> >>
> >> --- Al Klase <al at ar88.net> wrote:
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