[ARC5] [Milsurplus] Command Receivers on the Broadcast Band

[n3lll --]

My father was a Bombardier on B-24's in the Eighth Air Force during WW2.
Our family was from Lima, Ohio, long before I knew what a Command Set was
he told me this story.  He said when they returned from a mission over
Germany and were finally out of harm's way the radio operator would tune
the radio to WLW in Cincinnati.  As I recall WLW in those days transmitted
with far more than 50,000 watts.  He said it was like being home again.
Each time I restore a BC band command set I think of this.  Here is a link
to a short Youtube I did one sunday morning with a broadband loop on a
tripod outside my shop.  There was a station every 10KHz.  With that same
configuration I can hear WWL in New Orleans, during the day, over 340 miles
away.  Best Regards ... tom, N3LLL

Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICm8vwxTovY


On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 7:33 AM gordon white <gewhite122 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fascinating!!
>
> Some years ago I was doing the history of the SS CONESTOGA, a WW II T-2
> oil tanker I served on for a summer in the 1950s and when I tried to get
> access to the deck logs I was told the Maritime Administration had
> shredded them. (I was able to find the Naval Armed Guard logs. They were
> the Navy gun crews assigned to convoy ships.)   Where did you find the
> deck logs?
>
>
>   - Gordon Eliot White
>
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