[ARC5] Ham Radio Intercept of military Comminciations

[Bob Macklin]

To use those SW radios you had to have an outdoor antenna. These radios were 
also the main radio in home. They were used for other entertainment. There 
was NO TV in those days. Trying to find aircraft radios on those things 
would have been difficult. They had no bandspread. And only the top of the 
line radios had the GREEN TUNING EYE!

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Haynes" <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
To: "Robert Eleazer" <releazer at earthlink.net>; "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 
military radio equipment." <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Ham Radio Intercept of military Comminciations


> On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Robert  Eleazer wrote:
>>
>> As for other ham intercepts, remember that SW listening was discouraged
>>in WWII and many of the better quality commercial SW receivers were taken
>>by the government for its own use.  Considering that the air over the USA
>>was alive with many thousands of aircraft, and the associated radio
>>communications must have been quite extensive, I find it remarkable that
>>I have never heard anyone recall listening to that comm at their home.
>
> I don't know anything about SW listening being discouraged, but this was
> a period of time when many home radios, console and table model, were
> equipped to receive shortwave broadcasting.  But maybe network broadcast
> radio was so good then that few people were interested in shortwave
> listening.
>
>
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