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Question about an old scrambler phone [telecom]

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I've got an odd sort of a question for your group.

When I was a kid, my friend's dad had a phone in his house that he told me was a "scrambler". It was a regular telephone, mounted on a metal base, with an AC cord for the base. The base had just two vacuum tubes in it, and a couple of transformers. It didn't look like much, but my friend said his dad used it to make scrambled phone calls to his reserve unit.

Has anyone ever seen anything like that? I never knew if he was yanking my chain or not.

Ernie Donlin

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