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

Tue Nov 2 19:30:35 EDT 2010

That's right! You guys are good. Thanks John,
73 to you.
Henry M.

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> The Inner Sanctum.  "Good evening, Friends, Welcome......
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> 73,
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> John, W4AWM
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> -----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: Tue, Nov 2, 2010 6:41 pm
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] WW2 Sw Listening - ARC5 Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6
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>
> What was the name of that horror-thriller show -- a creaking door was part
> f the opening sound effects ? Think it
> ay have been on weekends late afternoons -- really scared me if I listened
> o it when no else was home.
> enry (again)
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> rom: "Henry Mei'l's" <meils at get2net.dk>
> o: "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment."
> arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> ent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 11:34 PM
> ubject: Re: [ARC5] WW2 Sw Listening - ARC5 Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6
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> 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
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>> !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
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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
>>>> Subject: Re: [ARC5] WW2 Sw Listening - ARC5 Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6
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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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> "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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