Wireless of theWeek - week 4

[Johnny Canuck]

Hello Bruce
Thank you again for posting these, great info.
Have one myself, almost complete, missing power plug, tent, operators lamp, misc 34' aerial brackets and the spare tools box, have pretty much everything else for the 11 Installation Kits except above items.

Geoff

[Chris Suslowicz]

Originally Posted by Johnny Canuck

Hello Bruce
Thank you again for posting these, great info.
Have one myself, almost complete, missing power plug, tent, operators lamp, misc 34' aerial brackets and the spare tools box, have pretty much everything else for the 11 Installation Kits except above items.

Geoff

The power connector is the seriously hard to get item, as most of them would have been left with the vehicle when the set was removed and subsequently scrapped with the cable for the copper content.

The operator lamp is the 2-pin one as used with the WS22 and plugs into the top of the power connector!

I have the vulcanite insulator for the 20 & 34-ft masts, but not the later ceramic one for high power use. (Vulcanite is rather lossy and not intended for the WS52.) An oddity is that I have a small diameter ceramic insulator for this mast - I know it's for the mast because all the casting numbers match - but it must be very early and was probably discontinued as it's very unlikely to be "soldier proof".

Chris.

[Bruce MacMillan]

For timeline reference when this set became available, see para 3. Due end of August, 1944.

[Johnny Canuck]

Originally Posted by Chris Suslowicz

The operator lamp is the 2-pin one as used with the WS22 and plugs into the top of the power connector!

Chris.

Hello Chris
Wasn't the WS52 Operators Lamp similar, the cable and connection were the same as the WS22, but the WS52 Lamp had a rubber suction cup instead of the metal clip?





Hopefully some fellow in northern Ontario is sitting on a box of these unopened in original packaging.

Geoff