[ARC5] G & G Radio in NYC

Wed Jun 14 17:58:21 EDT 2017

G&G Radio, that Jeff mentioned, is where my Dad purchased a T-19 xmitter for me in 1953.  And I still have it.

In 1961 while in the Army, I was stationed in Ft. Ord, CA.  As I was going to be living off base, I brought with me  that T-19, a power supply I built based on the one in "Command Sets", and a SX-99 Hallicrafters Rx. Was on the air using CW for about a week or so until I started getting "OO" notices about how bad my signal was chirping and burping. With the added admonition that I was to clean up my signal ASAP.

Some of you may remember the Berlin Crisis going on in 1961, and shortly after receiving my OO notices I was on a troop ship headed for Bremerhaven, Germany, and from there to Bad Kreuznach! No more ham radio for a while.
Best,
Tom. KE4RHH

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> Jay wrote:
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>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/112442171021?ul_noapp=true
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>> Not Mine
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> It once was an R-24/ARC-5.  So, at least it was a dog that nobody ever wanted.  :-)
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> Mike / KK5F
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> The FW-190 was equipped with 7.92 mm machine guns, but I don't suppose 
> the average buyer today would notice the difference.
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> what about G&G radio in NYC.  I worked there on Saturdays polishing tubes and helping pack things with my dad
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> jeff kg2bz
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>>> On Jun 14, 2017, at 2:59 AM, hwhall at compuserve.com wrote:
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>>> Bill Slep's catalogs.
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>> & John Meshna's.  Good times.....
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>> Wayne
>> WB4OGM
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>> Yep.  Except that my "bible" for Command Set stuff was Bill Slep's catalogs.  
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>> In a message dated 06/13/2017 12:10:38 PM Central Daylight Time, arc5 at ix.netcom.com writes: 
>> Note that as a kid, I drooled over the fair radio catalogs like everyone else, and I mowed lawns and worked weekend jobs like everyone else, and I still couldn't buy Surplus receivers and transmitters I wanted. They cost more money than I had available.
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>> Sent from my Ain't Smart Phone.
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> I noticed that immediately - even before I noticed the parenthetical 
> 'grin' that I take as his version of my <evil grin>. It will be okay 
> because of the screen doors used on submarines. Oy!
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> 73,
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> Bill  KU8H
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>> On 06/14/2017 04:38 PM, gordon white wrote:
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>> The FW-190 was equipped with 7.92 mm machine guns, but I don't suppose 
>> the average buyer today would notice the difference.
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>> - Gordon White
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> From: Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
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>    Your mention of not knowing about a BFO brings a painful reminder of 
> just how naive I was as a kid. I had nagged for an S-38B since a 
> neighbor had one and, at maybe eight years old, I thought it was 
> advanced technology. Well, I got it. It had a switch marked AM/CW. It 
> sounded different in CW but I didn't really know what the difference 
> was. I suppose the instruction book might have told me. Eventually, I 
> found out.  I also realize now that for the same money I probably could 
> have gotten a used receiver of considerably better quality, maybe an 
> S-20R or something of the sort. I still have the S-38B but its in 
> pieces, maybe at some point I will restore it. I wish I had had some 
> sort of "elmer" at the time but the teen age neighbor was just a spoiled 
> rich kid; no help at all. I also could have done with an ARRL handbook, 
> didn't know they existed. I got into all this because my dad took a 
> night course in radio. We built a simple crystal set (on a literal bread 
> board). Worked like a charm.  He also took a class in photography and 
> brought home a Kodak Darkroom in a Box. Well you can guess who set this 
> up. I still remember watching the images come up on a roll of (probably 
> 127 Verachrome), seemed to take forever. I also printed those negatives 
> although I now have no memory of what the pictures were. Both ham radio 
> and photography became life long hobbies and electronics my profession. 
> In both cases I was pretty much self-taught.
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>> On 6/14/2017 9:08 AM, Robert  Eleazer wrote:
>> The only Command Set transmitter I have converted was a 5.3 to 7 MHZ ATA 
>> model I got from Fair Radio.  Like Ken, I was not interested the sets 
>> from the Amateur Radio standpoint but rather the historical  aspect. And 
>> I did not have my license yet, in any case.
>> I used the 1965 ARRL Handbook for information to get the transmitter 
>> running.  Those instructions called for minimal modification of the 
>> transmitter.  I only put an octal plug from a broken tube on the back to 
>> apply power, removed the antenna relay, and added a small phone socket 
>> on the front for a CW key.  I brought the transmitter up with about a 
>> 250VDC supply, stuck a piece of wire in the antenna connector and tried 
>> transmitting to a GE multiband receiver on the other side of the house.  
>> At the time I did not know about BFOs and was perplexed that I could not 
>> get a signal.  But eventually I found a signal to beat against.  No 
>> doubt I was not getting out past a mile or so but I did not care, since 
>> there was no one to talk to anyway.
>> I delighted in the operation of the Magic Eye tube and especially the 
>> fact it was a real WWII set, which was the real reason I got into radio 
>> in the first place - so I did not hack it up.
>> Wayne
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