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

Tue Nov 2 18:34:50 EDT 2010

Death Valley, wasn't that narrated by the "Old Ranger" - can hear the theme 
music even now  - loved that show.

its-me-again-Henry, vintage 1943

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lloyd Godsey" <kk7iz at cox.net>
To: "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment." 
<arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] WW2 Sw Listening - ARC5 Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6

> !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/
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Henry Mei'l's" <meils at get2net.dk>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 2:17 PM
> To: "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment."
> <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> 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
>> Subject: Re: [ARC5] WW2 Sw Listening - ARC5 Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>> Subject: Re: [ARC5] WW2 Sw Listening - ARC5 Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> "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>
>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
>>>>> 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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