Neat flea market find today

[GA1dad]

Picked up a Lafayette Telsat SSB-120 at the fleamarket today for $10. Got it home and everything appears to be working ( at least as far as I can tell without a proper antenna to hook up to it ). Haven't found much info or manuals on it yet. Any recommendations on how to proceed with it? I wanna get a wire up for it, and make sure it's transmitting on frequency, but beyond that I am unsure where to go. I have to imagine some new capacitors could be beneficial.

Thanks for looking.

 

[Mudfoot]

It's a nice looking radio.

 

[autotuner]

Ohhhh, I like. I never see anything like that down here.

 

[OldTech03]

You should proceed by selling it to me for 20 bucks

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

Nice find, I would just hook it up and run it and see what it does.

 

[GA1dad]

Thanks folks

 

[BJ radionut]

That's got the OLD PLL02A chip...couple switches and cover all the way to 10m.
We used the NB and PA switch to do that YEARS ago

 

[unit_399]

Hook a dummy load up on that meter and see what it does.

- 399

 

[Tallman]

Those were really nice radios back in the day!

 

[BJ radionut]

You could change the reference xtal in those and go right on the 10-meter band...realign the TX/RX and made a nice 10-meter mobile rig

 

[secret squirrel]

Treat that mic like gold. The Lafayette mics sound really well. It is an electret mic if I remember correctly. The amperage is different. I had a Lafayette 640 at one time. Great flea market find.

 

[barefootindian]

Thats a nice and neat looking rig you got there. Congratulations on your flea market find.Looks brand new too.

 

[GA1dad]

Hook a dummy load up on that meter and see what it does.

- 399

I did. It dead keyed at about 2.5 watts according to the Dosy. There was modulation when I spoke into the dummy load, but I don't recall the readings. Not sure what else I can do ( or how ) until I get a proper antenna up. As it was, I had a 2m/70cm mobile antenna handy and hooked it up (for RX only,,, did not attempt to TX) With the ham antenna I was able to pick up a few voices, though not clear and very weak. I was able to switch from AM to both USB and LSB and hear by the tone that the fine tuning adjustment knob was working. Gain, squelch and volume knobs all worked,, as did the switches. It all appears hopeful.

 

[Rwb]

Gimme that radio,i got $25 handy to give you

 

[autotuner]

I see your $25, and raise $20