Radiotelephone

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OBJECT TYPE: MOBILE/FM/TUBE
DATE: 1960
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 1966.0328.001

MANUFACTURER: INTERNATIONAL SYSTCOMS LTD.
MODEL: COMMANDER
LOCATION: Montréal, Québec, Canada

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: SHEET METAL CASE, CHASSIS &HARDWARE/ GLASS TUBES/METAL & SYNTHETIC WORKING PARTS

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 27.0 cm
Width: 25.0 cm
Height: 11.0 cm
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Communications
Category: Telephony
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: SYSTCOMS
Country: Canada
State/Province: Québec
City: Montréal

Context

Country: North America
State/Province: Unknown
Period: 1960 THROUGH 1970
Canada: Designed and manufactured in Canada.
Function: Used to communicate vehicle to vehicle and to a base station.
Technical: This is one of the last mobile systems using all vacuum tubes for the transceiver. Transistors replaced the vibrator used in the power supply of earlier radios. It is a double conversion superheterodyne, single channel operation and is designed to operate in the range of 148 to 174 MHz. A later model, the Commander Two, was produced in 1965 and used transistors in the receiver section and vacuum tubes in the transmitter section. It was packaged in an identical case.
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: PRINTED ON FRONT PANEL: 'BELL/ SQUELCH CHANNEL VOLUME/ OFF/ [DRAWING OF A BELL WITH 'SERVICE' ACROSS CENTRE]/ HANDWRITTEN: '40411-2'/ DYNATAPE ON BACK: 'AUDIO/ MIKE/ TRANS/ SHIELD'
Missing: 6360 VACUUM TUBE/ FREQUENCY CONTROL CRYSTALS/ MICROPHONE
Finish: CASE, GRAY HAMMERLIN ENAMEL/ FRONT PANEL-FLAT SILVER GRAY ENAMEL WITH BELL TRIM & PRINTING/ BACK PANEL & HEAT SINK-FLAT BLACK
Decoration: BLUE TRIM ON PANEL WITH BELL INSIGNIAS ON LEFT CENTRE AND BOTTOM RIGHT

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INTERNATIONAL SYSTCOMS LTD., Radiotelephone, circa 1960, Artifact no. 1966.0328, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1966.0328.001/

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