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Re: transformers



I am old -- I couldn't remember the word "dynamotor." In HS I desperately
wanted one to power my mobile transmitter. Ten years later I was given one
(PE103?) amongst a bunch of other junk made obsolete by transistors!

I believe you are correct; the PE103 was a khaki colored cylindrical object
that sat in the trunks of quite a few cars in southern California. Remember
the $5 ARC-5 transmitters? Perhaps the BC-610 kW rigs? Remember the ads for
"Joe Palmer Surplus Electronics" in CQ and QST? (Joe is my father, now 87.)

"Nostalgia" sounds like the name of a disease. Perhaps it is.

Leigh