E F Johnson Viking Avenger hybrid 80-10 transceiver

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The Grand Rapids (MI) Radio Association (GRARA) is offering for sale an E.F. Johnson Avenger 80-10 meter hybrid tube/transistor SSB and CW 100 watt transceiver, condition clean, nonworking but pilot lights do illuminate. Has dual VFO's and comes with a working AC power supply and an untested DC power supply. Includes original user/maintenance manual in good condition. Source: estate sale item not sold at Grand Rapids ARA hamfest swap meet.

Very few of these were made (see below).

$880 or highest offer above that received by 29 September 2012, buyer to pay cost of packing and shipping.

Contact this station via PM or (munged) [callsign] "at" e arth l ink "decimal" n et. All bids regardless of amount will be be forwarded to Grand Rapids Radio Association members handling the estate sale.

Cortland
KA5S



Some online info:

... in the early 1960s EF Johnson developed a revolutionary SSB transceiver called the Avenger. It was all-solid-state except for the final and driver tubes, had dual VFOs and many other features. But it cost something like $2000 to manufacture at a time when a KWM-2 was $1100 or so, and only about a dozen prototypes were made. EFJ lost a bundle on the Avenger, and it soured them on SSB and transceivers at precisely the time they should have gotten into the game.

Jim, N2EY

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Will have pictures of the power supplies soon. The AC supply works, the DC supply was not tested and looks like it will take a deal more work..
Weights are:

Transceiver 22.2 lbs

DC Power 11 lbs

AC Power 24 1/2 lbs


Cortland
KA5S

[KA5S]

Camera with pictures was misplaced but here are some better views. The AC PS has one wire on a capacitor loose underneath adn the DC PS has not had power applied.

Transceiver 22.2 lbs
DC Power 11 lbs
AC Power 24 1/2 lbs

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More information. A previous owner of this rig tells me he thinks neither PS had a case originally, so those must have been added later.

Cortland
KA5S