E1 Handset - Red Star - Has Anyone Seen One Before???

[Dennis Markham]

Dan, I see the Oct 30, I was talking about the capacitor.  Now that Jorge mentioned it, I can see the faint 29 there too.  It probably has IV 29 which would be the last quarter of 1929.  That's an old one.

[Dan/Panther]

Sorry, maybe this will redeem me.
D/P

[rp2813]

You guys must be seeing a "29" that I can't, even with the transmitter right in front of me!  I see "129A" but that's it.

[benhutcherson]

I've seen a star on the receiver end, but not on the transmitter end.

[Dan/Panther]

Ralph did you see my enlarged enhanced photo of the writing on the capacitor above ? I also see 129A. Also it appears to say I 33, or I35. My two say 129A followed by I-36, the other III-33.
D/P

[Dennis Markham]

Well Ralph, that answers that.  It's a 129A capacitor.  I just wondered if the capacitor date confirmed or was consistent with the date stamped on the transmitter piece.

[Dan/Panther]

I used the computer to best match the colors so It could highlight the words and letters as close as possible. The photo is a close up of my cap. I selected the color that showed the most writing in the drawing, then asked it to match all like colors in the immediate vicinity. the top portion of the 36 was already very clear, so it just picked up the colors that matched in the brighter area.


D/P

[rp2813]

I guess maybe my transmitter is an early type before they started dating them the way D/P's are.

Interesting that yours are dated 36, D/P, as I have an F1 from 5/36, which would be II/36 on a 129A.  Did they overlap production of both types?  I would think they would have stopped making 129A's as soon as the F1's were in production since the F1 really brought things up to standards of even modern day carbon transmitters.

[rp2813]

So getting back to the original question, does anyone know what these stars mean?

[AET]

The big red Texaco star?

You can trust your call to the phone that wears the star.

[Dan/Panther]

This may not have anything to do with the E1 handset, but here is part of a BSP for the F-1 handset I found.
D/P