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

Tue Nov 2 17:40:13 EDT 2010

!938 my dad bought a used 1936 116X console. 250-390 kcs.,  broadcast thru 
22 mcs.
I started grade school in Sept 1941. War started in Dec.
Dad ran what seemed like 1/2 mile of wire up the side of the canyon we lived 
in.
Wish I could remember it all. Much short wave listening. Neighbors came over 
to listen.
All I wanted to hear was Don Winslow, navy pilot and Capt Midnight.
Do remember Death Valley days. Scared the hell out of me.
In case you haven't figured it out, I just turned 75. Still remember the 
paper drives, scrap metal drives,
Women's auxiliary rolling bandages in the kitchen.
Always a 2 gallon percolator of coffee on the back of the wood cook range in 
the kitchen.
I have found a Philco 116B (tombstone) and 116X (console) and restored them.
Thanx
Lloyd Godsey  KK7IZ
kk7iz at cox.net
480-620-7145
www.kk7iz-parts.com
www.lloydsdipsydumpster.com/

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From: "Henry Mei'l's" <meils at get2net.dk>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 2:17 PM
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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.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Bob Macklin" <macklinbob at msn.com>
>> To: "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment."
>> <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
>> 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
>>> Subject: Re: [ARC5] WW2 Sw Listening - ARC5 Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6
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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>
>>>> Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1011021355190.5115 at localhost>
>>>> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>>>>
>>>> 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>
>>>> Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP1454719B01C41A227F8DE5AC5490 at phx.gbl>
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>>>> reply-type=original
>>>>
>>>> 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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