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[John Wilson]

A 250 watt supercar phone for 147.875 mhz. a two meter ham band 
frequency?  Are you sure?

John

Jack Smith wrote:
> I have some items that might interest readers of this list. All are
> large and heavy and are for pickup only in western Fairfax County. It
> will take a pickup truck or small van type vehicle for each of these items.
>
> I don't want direct payment for these, but ask you to make a donation to
> a particular tax-exempt charity in the amount appropriate. (I'll provide
> the details via a private E-mail for anyone that is interested.)
>
> The particular items are:
>
> 1) A Brown-Boveri HF transmitter. This is in a 6 or 7 ft tall rack and
> is CW mode. It uses plug-in coils and I have a partial set of coils
> along with an instruction manual (in German). I will also include a
> plate transformer, not original to the transmitter.  It probably weighs
> 200 lb or more, and it's chock full of parts that could be used to make
> an antenna tuner or whatever. I had it running on a dummy load at one
> point and recall it as delivering 400 or 500 watts.
>
> 2) An RCA "super carfone" 250 watt VHF base station, with crystals for
> 147.875 MHz (or perhaps it's 147.825 MHz, can't recall now.) Solid state
> receiver, solid state low power stages in the transmitter and vacuum
> tubes from there on. I believe I have a manual for this. This is in a
> weatherproof rack cabinet and is extremely heavy.
>
> 3) An RCA 500 series 406-420 MHz repeater with voting receivers. This is
> a complete repeater package with two remote receivers in smaller
> enclosures. It's all solid state except for a conduction cooled final
> amplifier, rated at 100 watts output. It's the government band 406-420
> MHz split. I have manuals for this as well, along with a spare
> transmitter or two. It's in an indoor rack cabinet.
>
> 4) HP 608D 10 MHz - 480 MHz vacuum tube type signal generator, with HP
> 417 super regenerative receiver and HP 803 impedance bridge. All in
> working order.  Have manuals for all. Includes a lab cart (old style).
>
> 5) GE MASTR 450-470 MHz band base station assembly, transmitter and
> receiver and power supply. No cabinet. 60 watts output as I recall.
> Crystalled up for a ham frequency in the 440-450 MHz band.
>
> I would like to get  these out of my garage and basement and into the
> hands of those would might find them useful, and also raise a bit of
> cash for a worthwhile purpose.
>
> Jack K8ZOA
>
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