[ARC5] WW2 Sw Listening - ARC5 Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6
Lloyd Godsey
kk7iz at cox.net
Tue Nov 2 19:54:55 EDT 2010
Yep, meant "what's that 'we" $#!+, white man?
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 4:35 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
> '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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