Categorie archief: Surplus Radio

Surplus radio equipment, especialy American en British radio equipment from the period 1940 - 1960.

Aug 11

PRC-26 (50 MHz in 6 kanalen)

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Op de radiomarkt te Hoenderloo kocht ik een PRC-26, met batterijbak en inklapbare antenne, echter zonder de telemike. Dit is een kristalgestuurde zendontvanger in 6 kanalen, bouwjaar 1959.  Aan de achterzijde zit een rond geel typeplaatje met de code D, wat betekent dat de frequentie-range loopt van 50,000 – 50,200 – 50,400 – 50,600 – …

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Jul 16

Identification of dynamotor-vibrators

vibrators

On the internet I found some information about the various types of vibrators used in militairy (surplus) equipment. Feel free to use this information.

Jul 15

Testing a vibrator for the DY-88 dynamotor

vibrator

When you have more then one dynamotor DY-88, like I have 4 of them, you do not always knows of the spare-part vibrator is a good one or just a thing to fill in the empty place for the spare-parts. There is a way to test them, just replace the working one in the dynamotor …

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Jun 28

Building a Whaddon mk VII replica of the Paraset

Paraset

Since 1,5 years ago I wanted to build a replica of the Paraset. This set is a portable transceiver with radiotubes and is made by the British SOE service for the communication between the resistance and London during WWII in the years 1941 to 1945. Because often the “secret agent” was dropped with this radioset …

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May 13

Surplus radio new equipment RT-70

RT-70 with AM-65/GRC

On the radio-market at the Jutberg I bought the RT-70 with AM-65 and mounting MT-300 for use with the AN/GRC-7 radio-set. Frequency is from 47 to 57 MHz in FM mode with a channel-raster of 100 KHz.

May 11

Overview Surplus Radio Equipment

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My collection Surplus radio equipment is expanding a lot….,  here is an overview: RT-77/GRC-9 transceiver 2-12 Mhz: RT-77 GRC-9 L.T.G. St. Cloud, serial-nr. 379 with French textmarkings RT-77 GRC-9 ERGMT/SO, serial-nr. 2638 with US textmarkings antenna parts MS-116, MS-117 and MS-118 and IN-127  in bag BG-174 antenna bracket FT-515 ground pins GP-27-A counterpoises CP-12 and …

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Feb 23

Tubetester I-177-A

tubetester

When working with tube-radios and transmitters  it is a must to have a tubetester.  There are many different tubetesters available, for example the AVO and Hickok testers, but my interrest is always been for a Hickok tubetester in  the militairy version called the I-177-A or the B-version. 

Feb 23

Surplus radio equipment

grc_9

For more than a decade I am a  collector of ‘green’ radios, particular the RT77 / GRC-9 (also know as the ‘Angry-Nine’ ) and all what’s about that.  The GRC-9 is designed after World War II in the late 1940s. It is the replacement of the BC-1306.  It has a separate transmitter and receiver.