[ARC5] WW2 Sw Listening - ARC5 Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6

[Bob Macklin]

And the Lone Ranger and  Captain Midnight.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henry Mei'l's" <meils at get2net.dk>
To: "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment." 
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Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] WW2 Sw Listening - ARC5 Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6


> "Only the Shadow knows what lurks within the hearts of...." ;0)
>
> Henry, Copen.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Donald Sanders" <w4bws at yahoo.com>
> To: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 8:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] WW2 Sw Listening - ARC5 Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6
>
>
> In reference to listening to shortwave radio during the WW2, I was born in
> 1940
> so I listened after I was 6 yrs old. However, I remember sitting in the
> living
> room with my father and mother listening to the big Silvertone console 
> radio
> and
> my dad tuned in several shortwave stations to get news of the war effort. 
> We
> also enjoyed the green hornet, The Shadow, music from top of the building 
> in
> New
> orleans and many others.
>
> I got interested and at age 8 built my first regen receiver and 6L6
> transmitter
> with the help of an Elmer. I found him by listening to 160 meters one 
> day.He
> was
> talking with another local fellow and told how to get to his house. It was
> about
> 2 miles from my house and I told my mother I was going there and the
> address.
> Hopped on my bike, rang the door bell and the rest is history as they say.
> Don W4BWS/HC4
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 14:00:01 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Ham Radio Intercept of military Comminciations
> To: Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>, "Discussion of AN/ARC-5
> military radio equipment." <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
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> 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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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 12:14:56 -0700
> From: Bob Macklin <macklinbob at msn.com>
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Ham Radio Intercept of military Comminciations
> To: "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment."
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> 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"
>
>
>
>
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