FWD: Claude Gray equipment: (Tnx Bill W1AC & Bob K4TAX)
PLEASE DON'T E-MAIL ME REGARDING THIS EQUIPMENT. I AM MERELY PASSING IT ON
FYI, FWIW. SEE CONTACT INFORMATION BELOW.
Don, k4kyv
I am sure that many of the older engineers across the southeast can
recall
the name Claude Gray. Claude ran a radio engineering consulting business
from his home in Birmingham for many years. His clients were radio
stations
across Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida and Mississippi where he
would
measure their frequency on a weekly or monthly basis. The station would
receive a postcard regularly with the deviation from their assigned
carrier.
If you were on frequency you would receive a green colored card. If you
were not dead on, you would receive a white card with the deviation in
CPS
listed (Claude never converted to Hertz).
Claude is still living in Birmingham and will celebrate his 99th birthday
this year. Recently, he and his wife have moved to an assisted living
facility, and his daughters are charged with the chore of disposing of
their
belongings including Claude's equipment. I was invited by his daughters
to
look over his equipment and give them some ideas on what can be done with
it.
I have been in the business for over 35 years, and most of the equipment
predates me. There are 3 six foot racks loaded with General Radio
equipment, frequency standards, frequency meters, receivers, etc. The
only equipment I was familiar with was a 1606 GR bridge, a 916 GR bridge
and
an old RCA field strength meter. The rest of it looked like GR lab
equipment,
all in very good shape.
I told them that none of this equipment was used (with the exception of
the bridges) in radio anymore and was obsolete and that it would be hard
to
assign a value. I did tell them that I would post this on the technical
forum to see if anyone had any ideas or might be interested in some or
all of this equipment for a collection.
If there is any interest, I could take some pictures and gather some
model numbers and post them on the net. They are not expecting to "get
rich"
off of this equipment, but they don't want to let it go to a flea market
or
worse yet, the dump.
Frank Giardina <fgiardina.at.bellsouth.net>
Birmingham, AL
I have posted some pictures on my website http://www.amfmtek.com/ .
One thing you might be interested in is that Claude had a collection of
seven R-390
receivers, one of which is still in its original box and never been used.
You can see it on the website. The other receivers are in various states
from complete to some parts missing.
If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me an email.
Frank WA4HMK <fgiardina.at.bellsouth.net>
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