[ARC5] WW2 Sw Listening - ARC5 Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6
Michael A. Bittner
mmab at cox.net
Tue Nov 2 19:33:45 EDT 2010
Yes! Don Winslow of the Navy (Maybe why I became a Naval Aviator in the 50s), Hop Harrigan Ace of The Airways, never did understand Terry and the Pirates let alone the crazy Chinese music that introduced the program.
But there was more important stuff on our old RCA multi-band radio. H. V. Kaltenborn "Ah there's good news tonight---", Lowell Thomas, Edward R. Murrow (reporting from London), Walter Winchell "Good evening Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the ships at sea ---". William L. Shirer, ------.
And the Grand Old Opry from WSM in Nashville: Hank Snow the singin' ranger, Little Jimmy Dickens, Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe bluegrass ---. No damn rock drummer on the same stage with those guys.
Think I'll take the short cut and head 'em off at the pass. Like ho ho Silver and away.
Mike, W6MAB
----- Original Message -----
From: Lloyd Godsey
To: Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment.
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 2:40 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/
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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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> 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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