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

[Terry O']

A buyer has come forward and sale pending for this WJ-8617B-8. Thanks to 
all for your interest.

Stay tuned. When the daughters figure out how they want things to go, 
I'll post other items for sale.

Terry O'
watkins-johnson at terryo.org
http://Watkins-Johnson.terryo.org
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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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