[ARC5] Yamato

[Bill Fuqua]

    Speaking of WWII Japanese technology.
    I have an WWII Japanese Transceiver. A field  leather cased belt worn 
device that is
very simple. One dual triode, superregen. Have no accessories (key built 
in)  but it does have the
frequency charts and schematics. The main problem with it is that the it is 
very radio active.
They painted all the knobs, panel and meter faces with radium paint. The 
phosphor is
dissipated but the radium is still hot and the paint easily peals off the 
panel.
The aluminum case does not attenuate this radiation a bit. So, what do you do?
Right now it is stored in a far corner of the basement in very safe location.
    If I should sell it, I expect it would set off radiation alarms at the 
airport terminals or
post office.
73
Bill wa4lav


At 01:15 PM 3/23/2012 -0400, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
>On 23 Mar 2012 at 12:30, Todd, KA1KAQ wrote:
>
> > Truly impressive and fascinating engineering & technology for the day,
>
>Well, from what I have seen, Japanese technology was what I would
>consider a very curious mix of up-to-date, and very outdated technology. For
>instance, one of the links provided on this list some time ago lead to a U.S.
>Army intelligence report on Japanese radar. Information included mentioned
>that their inter-deck cabling was extremely crude with no protection for that
>cabling, it simply being fed through holes in the deck. No "grommets" or
>strain reliefs. Some of the cabling was in quite large bundles too.
>
> > Not terribly practical in time of war, though. The materials, man
> > hours, and years of waiting that went into the Yamato only to have her
> > sitting on the bottom within a few hours of being attacked could've
> > been put to far better use.
>
>Agreed. Germany did much the same thing. All of that worked to our benefit
>though.
>
> > There was a sister ship to the Yamato too, sent to the bottom in one
> > of the post war atomic tests, IIRC. Can't recall the name.
>
>Wasn't that the "Musashi"?
>
>Ken W7EKB
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