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- OBJECT TYPE
- HF RADIO
- DATE
- 1935
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1971.0005.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- CAST ALUMINUM CASE, ALUMINUM RECEIVER CHASSIS, VACUUM TUBES AND OTHER MISC. RADIO RECEIVER ELECTRONIC PARTS/ TWO VERNIER KNOBSMOUNTED ON THE FRONT PANEL OPERATE TUNING CAPACITORS/ ONE BAKELITE KNOB OPERATEA POTENTIOMETER, ONE A VOLUME CONTROL,ONE AN ON/OFF SWITCH, ONE A SENSE SWITCHAND ANOTHER A DF BALANCE A TOGGLE SWITCH TURNS SENSE ON OR OFF/ 2 PHONE JACKS ARE PROVIDED. A POINTED KNOB OPERATES A
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 24.0 cm
- Width
- 80.0 cm
- Height
- 42.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Communications
- Category
- Radio
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- North America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- 1935 THROUGH 1945
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
USED TO LOCATE THE SOURCE OF A RADIO TRANSMITTER OR OTHER RADIO FREQUENCY EMISSION IN THE HF SPECTRUM. A SPECIAL ELECTRICALLY ROTATABLE ANTENNA ARRAY WAS CONNECTED TO THIS DEVICE. - Technical
-
PRIOR TO RADAR, THIS UNIT COULD BE USED TO LOCATE THE BEARING OF AN AIRCRAFT USING THE SIGNAL FROM THE ON BOARD HF RADIO TRANSMITTER - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- DF SCALE ENGRAVED AND FILLED WITH BLACK COMPOUND WITH SILVER/GRAY BACKGROUND. 0 TO 360 CALIBRATION/ VERNIERS ENGRAVED, BLACK ON SILVER LIKE NATURAL PLATING. 0 TO 100. ALL KNOBS DESIGNATED WITH OPERATING INFO
- Missing
- ANTENNA ARRAY, 1 #30 VACUUM TUBE, POWER SUPPLY OR BATTERIES; LEFT TUNING KNOB CHIPPED From CA of 09/27/1995 by Tony Missio: Yes - Missing one tube
- Finish
- GLOSS BLUE/GRAY ENAMEL/ ALL ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS NATURAL/ KNOBS BLACK BAKELITE/ VERNIER SKIRTS PLATED
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Direction finder, circa 1935, Artifact no. 1971.0005, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1971.0005.001/
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