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10th Oct 2019, 8:50 pm
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Octode
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Oxfordshire/Bucks borders, UK.
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Can anyone tell me about this please?
I picked this up some time ago, I don't really know enough about it!
Any thoughts? Thanks.
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10th Oct 2019, 9:11 pm
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Dekatron
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: W.Butterwick, near Doncaster UK.
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Re: Can anyone tell me about this please?
It was obviously an aerial tuning unit but looks like it has been very much got at and is now a power supply.
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10th Oct 2019, 9:32 pm
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Dekatron
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Cornwall, UK.
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Re: Can anyone tell me about this please?
Looks like originally it was a plug in Range B (CAY 47151A):
https://airandspace.si.edu/collectio...-47150-range-n Lawrence. |
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10th Oct 2019, 10:05 pm
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Dekatron
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Location: Croydon, Surrey, UK.
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Re: Can anyone tell me about this please?
Yes it looks like it's been 're-purposed' and what it says on the back bears no resemblance to what it is now!
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10th Oct 2019, 10:54 pm
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Triode
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
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Re: Can anyone tell me about this please?
Putting GP-7 wireless into Google came up with the following:
https://airandspace.si.edu/collectio...-47150-range-n Looks like yours was once the band-specific component for the GP-7 transmitter, and was stored in the carrying case which is now the outer case of your assembly... |
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11th Oct 2019, 5:55 pm
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Dekatron
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Wiltshire, UK.
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Re: Can anyone tell me about this please?
I'm sure I saw that 'thing' being hawked round a few rallies (Frome, Harwell) in the last year....
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11th Oct 2019, 7:04 pm
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Dekatron
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: W.Butterwick, near Doncaster UK.
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Re: Can anyone tell me about this please?
It certainly looked great before it was got at.
Have you opened it up to see if it is a power supply?
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12th Oct 2019, 9:01 am
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Heptode
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK.
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Re: Can anyone tell me about this please?
Looks like it may have a speaker under the hole top left so I'd guess an amp as well maybe?
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12th Oct 2019, 9:17 am
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Dekatron
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Re: Can anyone tell me about this please?
Do the bottom right sockets say Tx Rx though?
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12th Oct 2019, 10:04 am
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Dekatron
Join Date: Apr 2012
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Re: Can anyone tell me about this please?
The 2 jack-sockets next to the 'speaker' do suggest perhaps they're for audio input/output.
I'm really intrigued to see what's inside the box. My thought is that it will contain a PSU built to power some item of WWII-vintage stuff (R1155?). |
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12th Oct 2019, 12:52 pm
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Dekatron
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Re: Can anyone tell me about this please?
Open the box! We are all intrigued.
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12th Oct 2019, 3:28 pm
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Heptode
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK.
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Re: Can anyone tell me about this please?
Looks like an earphone has been fitted underneath, - top left?
Intriguing! David. |
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17th Oct 2019, 12:22 pm
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Octode
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Oxfordshire/Bucks borders, UK.
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Re: Can anyone tell me about this please?
I'll open it up later if I get a chance and take some photos and post them here.
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18th Oct 2019, 7:43 pm
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Octode
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Oxfordshire/Bucks borders, UK.
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Re: Can anyone tell me about this please?
Here you go, some more with the lid off
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18th Oct 2019, 8:11 pm
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Fife, Scotland, UK.
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Re: Can anyone tell me about this please?
Well, it once was a tuning unit but now it's got a cobbled-together power supply in it, complete with a dynamotor.
There should be voltage ratings on the dynamotor. The iron magnetics may just be filter chokes and not transformers. David
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18th Oct 2019, 8:11 pm
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Octode
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Oxfordshire/Bucks borders, UK.
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Re: Can anyone tell me about this please?
Last photo shows a small motor inside the unit.
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