Bill,
It is really not worth the $20. It is not usable on VHF Marine channels since they require all radios to have dual watch (scan) capabilities to be legal. The most it could be used for (maybe) is a 2 meter radio but that would require new crystals and a lot of tuning and modifying. If it has marine channel 16 in it, then someone could listen to stuff on the ship channel if they want. It is really a $20 boat anchor or door stop. Mike N5VCX From: BVARC [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Stone via BVARC Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2015 8:51 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: [BVARC] Marine VHF radio A friend of mine came by today to say hi and show me his VHF Sonar -70 Marine Radio Telephone that he thought to sell for 20 bucks. I contacted a member of Houston Antuige Radio Ass. and said no time or intrest in it. The coveres pulled showed like new tune coils, tuner ( works on long wire config). even better is resistors,caps, coils and slugs look new. This is Xtal control with transistorized reciever and a nice transmit TX tube. NO power supply that convert 12 volt to need voltages I dont see that this unit spent much if any time aboard ship. Its at my QTH for a week so if interested let me know. Also next to nil on manual on web so if you got info please contact me. This unit is just too pretty to end up on the BVARC dollar sale table. 20 bucks and its yours My info for contact is on BVARC member roster 73 Bill WS5H
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