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

Tue Nov 2 17:23:04 EDT 2010

OK, Bill Stern, Dragnet, Fibber McGee & Molly, Lux Radio Theater,
etc

73, Dick, W1KSZ

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

Come on somebody, don't let me be the last guy on this nostalgia thing!
Henry, Cph.

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From: "Henry Mei'l's" <meils at get2net.dk>
To: "Bob Macklin" <macklinbob at msn.com>; "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military
radio equipment." <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 10:06 PM
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> Renfrew (sp?) of the Mounties
>
> Henry M
>
>
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> From: "Bob Macklin" <macklinbob at msn.com>
> To: "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment."
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 10:00 PM
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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.
>>>
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>>> 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>
>>> Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1011021355190.5115 at localhost>
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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."
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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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