[ARC5] stuff for sale

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Wasn't it ZKLF that did those Morse training sessions? Started at 5 wpm
then worked up to 25 in steps of 5 every 15 minutes. But I may be wrong.

Neil ZL1ANM


On Friday, December 21, 2018, Brian Clarke <brianclarke01 at optusnet.com.au>
wrote:

> Hello Todd,
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> Thanks for your positive wrap.
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> It was – and is - Billy Babb, VK3AQB. He turns 97 on 2nd Jan 2019. He’s a
> ‘great mate’, in the Australian vernacular.
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> I’ll visit Billy in January to do another detailed inventory to help move
> even more ‘stuff’ along.
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> Charles Darby was the Brisbane fellow. Another PhD! He’s also a New
> Zealander, like me. Very helpful – he got me and my daughter into Sir Peter
> Jackson’s aircraft museum just north of Wellington, NZ.
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> When I was studying for my engineering degree in the ‘60s, there was an
> immaculate RR Merlin engine in the Mech Eng lab, a converted WWII hangar.
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> I was already hooked on Command stuff before I started my degree. I used a
> BC-454-B to listen to the RNZAF Morse training (or was it QNH?) broadcasts
> on 3.2 MHz to get my Communicator scout badge. At engineering school in the
> Elec Eng lab, I used Command sets to build my alignment skills. I’ve
> subsequently used Command sets to demonstrate RF alignment and
> high-reliability soldering to today’s electro-technology apprentices. With
> a bit of care, I was able to get 10 dB better sensitivity than in the
> ‘book’. Dr Drake was a genius.
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> 73 de Brian, VK2GCE.
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> *On* Friday, 21 December 2018 1:53 AM, you said:
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> A *lot* of stuff was left behind in Oz after the war from Command sets to
> Merlin engines, Dave. Back around 2001-2002 with the help of Brian Clarke
> and a friend from Brisbane I obtained roughly 75 kg of items like racks,
> shockmounts, controls, cables, etc from the Bill Babb (Baab?) collection.
> Brian can fill in the additional info, but IIRC, Bill purchased tons
> (literally) of radio, radar, and whatever else surplus after the war. Stuff
> the US didn't want to bring back, also some that was apparently used by the
> Australian forces as there are little round refurb tags affixed to several
> items. Brian painstakingly listed each item with tag and other info.
> Managed to find a lot of good bits, many of which I've still never seen
> available here. And that was only one guy's stuff. I'd bet there are a lot
> of goodies down under that many here would drool over.
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> I was single then so it didn't seem crazy. Shipping wasn't cheap, but
> better than today of course.
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> ~ Todd/KAQ
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