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"Doug" wrote:

"Lynn Coffelt" wrote in message
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Bruce in alaska one of the few with an Aircraft Endosement on
his ticket.......

I always coveted an Aircraft Endorsement, but after I got the Radar
Endorsement, work and feeding four hungry mouths sort of saturated all the
time that existed.
Northern was always King, I guess, I admired the company, and even
did
a couple of quick contract jobs for them.
When I needed another load of Morad antennas, I was too cheap to have
them delivered, so Morad would put them under Northern's dumpsters at
close
of day, and I'd drive down after work and pick them up. What impressed me
more than anything was that they had "business" hours. A concept
completely
foreign to Anacortes.
Lynn, W7LTQ


Speaking of Aircraft endorsement, I watched an old John Wayne movie "Island
in the Sky" last week on TV (an Ernie Gahn book). The radio op was running
what appeared to be a BC348 receiver, and an ART-13 transmitter with a bug.
It was in a WWII C-47 (DC-3) plane.
Did Northern ever make military receivers? I remember a Northern Electric or
Northern Radio version of the Hammurlund SP-600 that I worked on back in the
late 60s. I thought it was a Canadian firm that made them under a NATO
contract. However, one Navy guy from the pacific NW said they were made in
Seattle.
Speaking of business hours...I remember a coax distributor in Portland who
would hide rolls of coax under his shipping dock so they could be picked up
in the early AM on the way to work at the old Portland Radio Supply. You
don't get that kind of deal anymore.

73
Doug K7ABX




I believe that Northern did make some stuff on Contract for the Military
during the war, as I saw some old stuff on the shelves when I first went
to work there in early 71....The guy who would know is the Old Chief
Engineer, during the early 50's, Dan Farley, if he is still alive. He
helped the curater of the Seattle Museum of History & Industry save
pristine models of all the old Northern AM Rigs. I helped him procure
some of these from old Cannery sites in alaska, over the years. They
have a really good Libby, McNiel, Libby 250 Watt Transmitter that used
205th's as Finals and in Modulator. Stood 6 feet high in a 19" Rack,
with BIG Meters and Knobs. That came from the Kenai Plant when they
dissassembled the old Radio Shack above the Office in the early 80's,
after SSB became Manditory. I used to have a classic N529E that was
complete with Receiver, and Power Supply stored in Dry Storage, but
soimeone trashed it and it went to the scrapmetal guy. 5 feet high
19" Rack, with glowing 866's as Rectifiers on the HV Supply. Man that
was Cool to operate.

I loved the sound of that dynamotor HV supply in the movie....I made
a DVD of the film.

Bruce in alaska who has a complete set of Northern Radio Manuals
dating back to the early 40's.......
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