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

Tue Nov 2 17:06:23 EDT 2010

Renfrew (sp?) of the Mounties

Henry M


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From: "Bob Macklin" <macklinbob at msn.com>
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> 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."
> <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 1:53 PM
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>
>> "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
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: "arc5-request at mailman.qth.net" <arc5-request at mailman.qth.net>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> 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."
>> <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
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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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