Aviator II (2) Portable Direction Finder Aircraft Receiver

Nova-Tech, Manhattan Beach, CA

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  • Year
  • 1966 ?
  • Category
  • Commercial Receiver (may include amateur bands)
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 243748

 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Transistors
  • 12
  • Semiconductors
  • Main principle
  • Superheterodyne (common)
  • Wave bands
  • Wave Bands given in the notes.
  • Details
  • Radio with other functions
  • Power type and voltage
  • Batteries / addl. power jack / UM3: 4 x 1.5 / DC 6 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil)
  • Material
  • Plastics (no bakelite or catalin)
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: Aviator II Portable Direction Finder Aircraft Receiver - Nova-Tech, Manhattan Beach, CA
  • Shape
  • Portable set > 8 inch (also usable without mains)
  • Dimensions (WHD)
  • 8 x 5 x 2.5 inch / 203 x 127 x 64 mm
  • Notes

  • Aviator II combined VHF receiver and direction finder, complete with miniature earphone, leather carrying case, batteries, removable mounting brackets and 3 telescopic whip antennas. Tunable rotatable ferrite bar, gain and squelch control, tuning indicator.

    Wavebands:
    VHF/AM: 108 to 136 MHz
    Beacon/LF: 200 to 400 kHz
    Broadcast: 550 to 1600 kHz
    Marine/Shortwave: 1.5 to 4.5 MHz

    See also very similar model Pilot II with slightly different frequency ranges.

    Neither is very suitable for Europe as approximately 300kHz to 400KHz is virtually unused and 200KHz to 300KHz is only upper part of Region 1 LW Broadcast band (no LW Broadcast Band in North America). Both are mainly for USA Aeronautical Monitoring and US AM broadcast band, including USA extended AM, despite some marketing / import to UK.

  • Net weight (2.2 lb = 1 kg)
  • 2.5 lb (2 lb 8 oz) / 1.135 kg
  • Price in first year of sale
  • 47.00 GBP
  • Mentioned in
  • Ad in Flight International, 17 March 1966
  • Author
  • Model page created by Clive Forder. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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