Well I went looking and it wasn't where I thought it was??? Then on top of that the phone battery died. I will keep looking around. Tim L.
> 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/f01912cc0c265dd393765fc95458d77c.squirrel%40webmail.wcoil.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
