[ARC5] [BoatAnchors] Ht-4 Query
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Fri Oct 24 20:56:35 EDT 2014
Truly amazing the twists and turns a thread can take (and it's still
going...... :^)
Dennis D. W7QHO
Glendale, CA
**************
On Oct 24, 2014, at 7:53 AM, Glen Zook via ARC5 wrote:
> If I remember correctly, only 1 of the 2-submariners on the disabled
> Japanese midget submarine was "disowned" by the Japanese. That was
> the one who survived and became prisoner of war #1. The other
> sailor did not survive. In the photograph of the 10-sailors who
> manned the midget submarines, the survivor was removed and the other
> 9 remained. Glen, K9STH
>
> Website: http://k9sth.net
>
> On Friday, October 24, 2014 1:55 AM, Joel R Roberts <joelroberts001 at comcast.net
> > wrote:
>
>
> I think there were 5 midget subs, one of which was captured. Others
> were
> sunk, the first being very controversial as it was hit through the con
> and went down without any other evidence, until found a few years back
> by deep water research sub. There may have been only one that made it
> into the Harbor, but that was not confirmed. The 2 operators from the
> captured sub were disgraced by the military and their families. All
> others were honored as heroes for the cause.........Joel KB0FPT
> On 10/23/2014 11:13 AM, Dennis Monticelli wrote:
>> Japan had midget subs operating in that area. I wonder if they had
>> the
>> depth and search capability to identify a comm cable and then cut
>> it with
>> simple remote tool. Probably not. I know we caught and sunk some
>> of those
>> little guys in and around Dec 7 so they probably weren't very capable
>> machines.
>>
>> Dennis AE6C
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Raymond Cote <universal_comm at reagan.com
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Richard Knoppow
>>>> Los Angeles
>>>> WB6KBL
>>>> dickburk at ix.netcom.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - Original Message ----- From: "mac via ARC5"
>>>> <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
>>>> To: <T-368_BC-610 at yahoogroups.com>; "Arc5 mail list" <
>>> arc5 at mailman.qth.net>; "porch.boat Radios"
>>> <boatanchors at theporch.com>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 10:07 PM
>>>> Subject: [ARC5] Ht-4 Query
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> *************
>>>>
>>>> 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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