[ARC5] Testing battleship radios

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi,

I dunno about a rope and a wall but...

I used my RAK only sporadically for about 20 years and recently I have
been using it as a daily driver (okay - nightly). At one point I was
concerned about deterioration due to all the racket that comes and goes
between 15kc and 600 kc (my gosh that radio is *OLD*). I resorted to a
thing I learned in the early 50s and smacked the side of the RAK a
couple of pretty good thumps with my open hand, From past experience
with other, lesser radios I expected it to change frequency. It did not.
I have a long piece of rope but no steel wall to conduct a more formal
test (evil grin).

By the way, the RAK seems to be working about 100 per cent and is all
original.

73,

Bill  KU8H

On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 07:32 -0500, Ronnie Hull wrote:
> I have a real difficult time believing that 
> 
> Sent from Ronnie's IPhone
> 
> On Nov 3, 2012, at 7:28 AM, "Robert  Eleazer" <releazer at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> > One of my high school teachers, an early 1930's graduate of the Naval Academy, described testing radios intended for use on WWII Navy ships.
> > 
> > They tested the radio to ensure it was up to spec, then hung it from a long rope, pulled it back, and let it slam into a steel wall.  Then they took it down and tested it again.  It not only still had to work; if it had shifted frequency by more than 1 KC it failed.
> > 
> > Wayne