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

Tue Nov 2 19:23:58 EDT 2010

"The Shadow knows"!

> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 19:02:33 -0400
> From: w4awm at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] WW2 Sw Listening - ARC5 Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6
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> OK, Who recalls Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, Terry and the Pirates, Tom Mix, Superman, etc.
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> 73,
> 
> John, W4AWM
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Solomon <w1ksz at q.com>
> To: Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment. <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tue, Nov 2, 2010 5:23 pm
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> OK, Bill Stern, Dragnet, Fibber McGee & Molly, Lux Radio Theater,
> tc
> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
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> rom: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Henry Mei'l's
> ent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 2:18 PM
> o: Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment.
> ubject: Re: [ARC5] WW2 Sw Listening - ARC5 Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6
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> ome on somebody, don't let me be the last guy on this nostalgia thing!
> enry, Cph.
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> rom: "Henry Mei'l's" <meils at get2net.dk>
> o: "Bob Macklin" <macklinbob at msn.com>; "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military
> adio equipment." <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> ent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 10:06 PM
> ubject: Re: [ARC5] WW2 Sw Listening - ARC5 Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6
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> Renfrew (sp?) of the Mounties
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> Henry M
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Macklin" <macklinbob at msn.com>
> To: "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment."
> <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
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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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> >> 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
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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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