[ARC5] WW2 Sw Listening - ARC5 Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6
Henry Mei'l's
meils at get2net.dk
Tue Nov 2 19:35:41 EDT 2010
'Kimo sabi' (wasn't that Tonto's line ? Heard it was not exactly a
compliment!
Henry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael A. Bittner" <mmab at cox.net>
To: "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment."
<arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] WW2 Sw Listening - ARC5 Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6
> 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/
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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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