Re: Ex marine AM radio equipment.
Here is a photo of the Gray Radio Co. Type G3 VR, made in Palm Beach, Florida. It was easy to find as I am tripping over it at the bottom of the cellar stairs. I imagine it dates from about 1953-1955.
It used a separate power supply, which was not found with it, a typical scenario. Probably either a vibrator or dynamotor type. Someone has crudely replaced the original porcelain cone output insulator assembly with a SO-239 UHF connector.
It was obviously intended for mounting on the bulkhead of a yacht's bridge. The controls include a switch between receiver crystal channels and a tuned AM broadcast receiver, standby-operate, handset or both handset and speaker, and a noise limiter (squelch?)
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