Hi, I don't have any pictures. I will try to do some digging tomorrow and take some pictures to post. Though a little off topic. Maybe I will throw in some shots of some nixie test equipment to get more on topic. Tim L
> I have a surplus WW 2 IFF transponder box that I picked up a couple of > years ago at one of the hamfests for under $10. In unused condition, very > nice with acorn tubes and a doorknob tube for the transmitter. I think it > operates on 433MHz. I had an another one of these I picked up when I was > in high school that had been partly gutted to make some type of ham > transceiver in the 1950s. It came with the CQ mag that had the mod article > in it. One interesting item was/ the bottom cover has 6 or 8 electrical > fittings for thermite? demolition charges so if the plane was going down > you hit the button before bailing out. The article said there was some > after war excitement because some of these units went into the surplus > channels with the demolition charges still in place! > Tim L. > My unit is just a rather uninteresting black box, the controls were > somewhere else. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/0f4ea84b37c41645a003983f62cc0601.squirrel%40webmail.wcoil.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
