[ARC5] [BoatAnchors] Ht-4 Query

[Raymond Cote]

AT&T was(is) in Waianae on the leeward coast. Like most cable support units it was underground and was hardened and access was by elevator and had a large blast door. 
I know this as I was involved in dismantling much of the electronics utilized in the Hawaii to Guam cable. After I finished in Waianae, I went to Guam and removed the electronic racks, loaded them in 2 40 foot containers Nd shipped to Honolulu to store at the Univ of Hawaii marine center. 
Such fun.  

Raymond Cote
KD9CCZ
Hurrah!  
My new "general" ham radio call sign


> On Oct 23, 2014, at 01:40, Richard Knoppow via BoatAnchors <boatanchors at theporch.com> wrote:
> 
>   I highly suspect this story for several reasons. For one thing the first telephone cable to Hawaii was installed in 1957. An article about this can be found at:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAW-1
> While telegraph cables date back to before the Civil War the first long voice cable was not installed until about the late 1950s.  Overseas telephone service was done via radio. AT&T set up the first telephone service to England in the mid-1920s (I have forgotten the exact date) using long wave (about 150 khz) and short wave service followed in the early 1930s. Telephone service to Hawaii was provided by both AT&T and RCA Communications with terminal stations near San Francisco on the main land and for RCA at Kahuku Point, I am not sure where the AT&T station was. These stations were very certainly operating by the mid-1930s and would have provided whatever telephone communication was necessary.
>   Also, prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor civilian manufacturers in the U.S. continued their civilian line of equipment.  After the entry of the U.S. in the war most production was turned to defense.  Prior to the war Hallicrafters had begun manufacturing a medium-power transmitter for ham use under the model number HT-4. Hallicrafters was approached by the Signal Corps about making this transmitter avaiable to the military.  The signal corps requred some modifications to the civilian version to make it more rugged particularly as it was intended to be mounted ina trailer for mobile use. The story of this can be found in promotional movie made by Hallicrafters called "The Voice of Victory" which can be found at http://www.archive.org and also on u-tube  A google search will find it. Also, the story of the FBI being involved in this is somewhat fishy.
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> Richard Knoppow
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> WB6KBL
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> The following excerpted from another message.   The book (new one on
> me) was published in 1944 BTW.  Copy currently listed on AbeBooks for
> $45.  Anyone know more -  other books, better sources, etc? I'm
> certain that underseas cable as available Hawaii to the mainland by
> that time (see Q. 2 below).
> 
> Dennis D.  W7QHO
> Glendale, CA
> 
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> 
> My name is Gerrit Jan Huijsman, callsign : PA0GJH, I am investigating
> a story about the Hallicrafters high power amateurradio transmitter
> HT-4. Perhaps you can help me or perhaps you know sombody who can.,
> According to the story in the book The HT-4 goes to war by Will
> H.Connelly the owner of Hallicrafters, Bill Halligan was visited in
> august 1942 by an FBI-agent who demanded an HT-4. As there were none
> available and the production was stopped. Bill provided his own
> personal transmitter. It was shipped the same day to Hawai with a
> bomberaircraft, where it was used to inform the main land of USA  on
> december 7th about the japanese attack on Pearl Harbor., The questions
> I have are:,
> 1.      Why the hurry?,
> 2.      Was there no other means of communications available?,
> 3.      The HT-4 was installed on Hawai  in august 1942. The attack
> took place on december 7th, where ther rumours about an oncomming
> attack?,
> 
> I am using the information fora n article in the Dutch Amateur Radio
> Magazine Elextron. The HT-4 was, as you probably know, modified into a
> military version called BC610 and was widespread used on battlefields
> during WOII as part of the mobile installation SCR-299. After the war
> the equipment became in use by the Netherlands army. Today several
> BC610s are used by radioameurs in this country., I hope that you can
> give some information., 73, Gerrit Jan, PA0GJH
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