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

[Mac]

Thank you so much Charles,  as well Terry O

best regards Mac Fowler

On 9/16/2021 10:30 AM, Tom M. wrote:
> Gentlemen?
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> I see that Mr. O has a very fine photo of the green 8617B-8 on his 
> very fine site at
> Watkins-Johnson 
> <https://watkins-johnson.terryo.org/WJ-Receivers/WJ-8617.htm>
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>     Watkins-Johnson
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> <https://watkins-johnson.terryo.org/WJ-Receivers/WJ-8617.htm>
> Yours truly,
> Charles H. Hungadunga
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> On Wednesday, September 15, 2021, 07:40:48 PM CDT, Mac via Premium-Rx 
> <premium-rx at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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> 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 ..
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> 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
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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. 
> <mailto: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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