No 22 Wireless Set?

[Chris Suslowicz]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

While I think of it. Take a look at the upper Operators Lamp in this photo. It has a black, half round hood on it. Anyone know a source of supply for that item, or provide more detailed information about it?

If any of you have tried using the lower style Operators Lamp in the dark, you will understand why that hood is a great idea. Even with the solid red lens in use, the lamp gets very annoying, very quickly.

David

The shade comes ready fitted to the WS22 and WS62 lamps, but for some reason the WS19 lamp was supplied without it. It should not be difficult to make shades up out of thin sheet brass or tinplate.

Chris.

[Mike K]

The WS22 was also manufactured here , although based on the British set , it was a totally new revised set specifically designed to cope with jungle -damp conditions.

The set utilized the then new PVC coated wires , special wax was used to seal the fragile RF coils . I have a recorded talk given by a chap who was in the army wireless research depot in Burwood, Melbourne. He said they immersed the set in a tank of water , blew the water off with compressed air , and turned it on, it worked ! The 122 set , the same set but with provision for XTAl control of the TX ... a very nice set to use . I had many QSO's with a 122 set on CW and AM .... one memorable evening I had three CW contacts into USA on the 40mx band .

Having owned the British set ... can I politely write , it's a piece of junk compared to the Aust. set . On standby rx, the Aust. set only requires a very small power , in terms of watts

The manual is here
http://tosty.id.au/122-Manual/

Mike