What is it?

[onanparts]

Not even a guess?....Hmmmm...Made in Washington. A short drive from Arlington.

[boB]

Not even a guess?....Hmmmm...Made in Washington. A short drive from Arlington.

A marine radio ?   Northern Radio ?

Something from SGC ?

SEA Data-Marine ?  (Was just SEA I think)   marine and land-mobile radios.

[onanparts]

Not even a guess?....Hmmmm...Made in Washington. A short drive from Arlington.

A marine radio ?   Northern Radio ?

Something from SGC ?

SEA Data-Marine ?  (Was just SEA I think)   marine and land-mobile radios.

Not Marine, but it was manufactured on an island.....

[onanparts]

OK, last teaser hint. Mick Jagger or Timothy Leary could have used this transceiver "legally" if they had a Ham ticket. 

[1ajs]

fm transmiter?

[dgd]

A transmitter for stimulating neural activity (aka Frankenstein medical apparatus for inducing circadian rythmns in victim's brain) - As old rubber lips crooned - I see a red door and want it painted BLACK

[boB]

Well, ya certainly got me on this one !

[tecnodave]

And why would need a ham ticket to operate that?

td

[boB]

And why would need a ham ticket to operate that?

td

I don't know....  But   LSD  sounds kind of like  LSB   or SSB in some sort of way ?

[onanparts]

I don't know....  But   LSD  sounds kind of like  LSB   or SSB in some sort of way ?


boB has it the closest by stepping outside the boX, and reading between the lines... After a quick search on Google I did discover boB was even closer than I thought. Good job boB! A big box of nothing headed your way..

"Don Stoner and Pierre Goral formed a company called SGC (Stoner-Goral Communications) in 1972, which made Marine-band radios. Once again, Don’s single-sideband knowledge and savvy marketing skills helped lead marine radio out of the "Ancient Mariners" mode (AM) and into the world of SSB".

And this,
As the saying goes: "The rest is history", because Don decided to make a single-sideband radio for the enthusiast, desgined by the enthusiast! Setting up shop in the John Hancock building on Mercer Island in Washington, a tremendously well designed radio began to taken form. To begin with, the rig was designed as a Sideband ONLY transceiver from the ground up.

The what is it?

It's a Stoner PRO-10, Ten Meter SSB Ham Transceiver.

[boB]

One of my guesses was SGC but I thought they made marine radios ?

Stoner died just a few years ago but I thought that SGC still makes antenna tuners.  Nice ones too.

[onanparts]

One of my guesses was SGC but I thought they made marine radios ?

Stoner died just a few years ago but I thought that SGC still makes antenna tuners.  Nice ones too.

Not sure if Don was still with SGC when he started the Stoner line of SSB rigs in the late 70's. He had a PRO-40 11 meter rig, the PRO 80-10, eighty-10 meters and the PRO-10 shown here.

Don went silent key back in 99.

Next up....?

[tecnodave]

VHF Transimtter!  Transistors like Q8 and Q9 were used in land mobile radios at 150mhz in Motorola Motran and other transmitters , this one is not a Motorola though.

td

[onanparts]

VHF Transimtter!  Transistors like Q8 and Q9 were used in land mobile radios at 150mhz in Motorola Motran and other transmitters , this one is not a Motorola though.

td

Right track, wrong station... Take another look...

[tecnodave]

Motorola logo on the chips but I'm pretty sure Motorola pioneered this style of R.F. Power chips and was in the 70's a major semiconductor supplier, but as I remember Motorola never Left flux on the boards, not quite their style of circuit path either.  How about a medical device that uses R.F. power to induce healing in the body?

td