Vintage WW2 US Army Signal Corps radio

[Timmer]

and G.E. Dynamotor I'm donating to a local US Army/Navy radio communications museum. The 1942 Belmont BC 1073A 'Wavemeter" and accompanying G.E. PE-73-C dynamotor were left in the house I bought about 10 years ago; one family in the house since it was built in the mid 40's, fella must have been in WW2 and brought back the equipment as surplus. I finally decided to just donate them

Tim

[Timmer]

one more photo

[Koblenz]

Very Kool! When we were restoring a WWII B-17 we were always looking for period pieces. Thanks for donating!

[AndyS]

That is really cool.

[Timmer]

Pictures really aren't the best guys and I should have put up a front/rear view of the G.E. generator, that's where the plugs,etc are but they are neat pieces of WW2 communications history, that is, at least from the US Army Signal Corps. Here's a link of the place where they are going.

Tim

www.antiquewireless.org/museum/museum.htm

[Richard]

Along time ago these were a blast to play? around with. But in a modern age powering up a transmitter Like this takes out nearly all RF thru harmonics...

[Timmer]

The fella that brought it back must have operated it for a while from the house; after 10 years I finally removed 3 antenna brackets from the side of the house, had to first carefully remove the asbestos/masonry shingles to access the the bolts that held the brackets in but got them off and in the living room is an outlet that is not standard 110; I'm guessing the outlet is for the operation of that radio/control unit. For the G.E. Dynamotor, on the rear there are 2 plugs, a one pin plug and above it is "PL-59 Trans" and a 9 pin plug, "PL-61 Trans"

Tim

[Timmer]

check this out guys., mentioned is the Belmont BC 375 but the dynamotor also powers the BC 1073A

http://w5jgv.com/downloads/BC-375-E.pdf