These were the transmitters scheduled to replace the 4 Continentals and the GE. For three years they sat in the corridor, making us think that there was a future for Pals. I am pretty sure that Washington bigwigs knew for at least four years that the end of Pals was nigh. In the end, these new transmitters were re-shipped to the Middle East and our own dreams dashed by unthinking bureaucrats who did Uncle Sam no favors in the process