[Premium-Rx] WJ-8617B-8 for sale

[Mac]

I'll bite so to say,  I haven't heard of either of these two listings, 
this one as the 8617B-8 or the follow on 8999 and Osterman makes no 
mention of these ...at least in his 4th edition i have ..

Sri for the interest, i well realize it only takes 2 of us to show 
interest in one radio and the daughters are happy..

thanks for this "heads up Terry"  mac/mc  w5mc

On 9/15/2021 5:45 PM, Terry O' via Premium-Rx wrote:
> I'm helping two daughters with their father's estate and here's one 
> item of interest:
>
> Watkins-Johnson WJ-8617B-8. I tried it out and it works. Has a light 
> green color front panel that was specified by the customer. (Picture 
> on request.
>
> This is revision 3 of this model which modified it to work the ISB 
> option.  This baby is loaded with options: 10IF, BITE, M/S, PKC, SM, 
> VBFO, 488, VLF, Offset and a special WBO (8 MHz wide at 10.7 MHz).
>
> The VLF option modifies the receiver to tune 10 kHz to 500 MHz.
>
> The ten IFs are 3.2, 10, 20, 50, 200, 400, 800, 1200, 1600 & 3200 kHz.
>
> The Offset option is very rare. It allows the receiver to work with an 
> external downconverter and changes the frequency display to adjust for 
> the conversion. The documentation says the offset can be programmed 
> from the front panel.  It is currently set to 1 GHz.
>
> The rumor mill used to say this color was "spare green" but customers 
> sometimes specified colors like green, tan and peacock blue, all of 
> which are very rare. Other records show some of the green radios were 
> purchased by Sylvania. I have no record of the original customer for 
> this radio but the project name, which means nothing to me at the 
> moment, was Feldspar.
>
> If you are interested in this radio, contact DK at videoterm.com. I am 
> not the seller. I'm just helping out the family who know little about 
> radios they've inherited.
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