[Boatanchors] WW2 Radios In The Movies...

[Bry Carling]

That's great Ray. I'd really like to see an SST1.
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From: Ray <w4byg at att.net>
Sent: Tue Jun 12 12:06:13 EST 2012
To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] WW2 Radios In The Movies...


I have on display in my shack an original SST-1 transmitter that was 
standard issue for allied agents during that time. It was given to me 
by W4OVE (SK) who was in the OSS. He told me he took it behind the 
German lines during the Normandy invasion, to report troop movements. 
He was able to bring it home with him after the war. It's now about 68 
years old.

It is in excellent condition. I've even had it on the air (40 meters) 
and it worked fine, with the original 6L6GT tube, etc. I reformed the 
caps before hand.

It is made to operate from 3 to 14 Mc (MHz) xtal controlled and has a 
built in antenna tuner. It is tuned for maximum brilliance on a panel 
mounted #47 pilot light indicator. Crude by today's standards, but it 
works well.

I'm watching the"Wish Me Luck" series in hopes to be able to see one of 
these there. I couldn't see enough of the one field rig I've seen so 
far. It was a shot from the side showing mostly the suitcase The 
actors were shown using an external key. My SST-1 has the key built 
into the top panel, but also a plug for and external key..

Ray, W4BYG


On 6/5/2012 1:03 PM, Kenneth Grimm wrote:
> Netflix has three seasons, 23 episodes of Wish Me Luck.
>
> 73,
>
> Ken - K4XL
>
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:34 PM,<WA5CAB at cs.com> wrote:
>
>> I concur. We watched the entire series last year.
>>
>> Robert D.
>>
>> In a message dated 06/05/2012 11:17:32 AM Central Daylight Time,
>> bcarling at cfl.rr.com writes:
>>> WW2 era Radio Training Depicted
>>>
>>> 1942 spy radios just spotted in a great TV drama from the UK (ITV) made
>>> in 1988
>>> and following...
>>>
>>> The series of shows is called: WISH ME LUCK
>>>
>>> I have just watched all of Season One - and there are 8 wonderful
>>> episodes.
>>>
>>> This might be old news to some, but I just discovered this wonderful
>>> series available
>>> on Netflix, "Wish Me Luck." A great little drama series - only the first
>>> series of 8 episodes is
>>> on Netflix. They have about 3 series available elsewhere for a higher
>> fee.
>>> Maybe Netflix has
>>> the rest on DVD?
>>>
>>> It's so wonderful. Episode2 grabbed me when it depicted radio training
>>> both telegraphy AND
>>> radio repair classes. They have a nice collection of R107 and R1155 radio
>>> sets, and they
>>> actually work on a few of them too.
>>>
>>> In episode 3 one of the ops will send their first clandestine
>> transmisison
>>> from France to
>>> England. Oh wait... am I supposed to be keeping this secret? (grin!)
>>>
>>> Episodes 4 and 5 show a lot of radio comms and a young lady who is
>>> stringing up
>>> antennas in various locations, and almost gets caught by the German
>>> occupation guys.
>>> It's a great drama with plenty of interest to radio enthusiasts. The
>>> radios look something like
>>> these:
>>>
>>> SUITCASE SETS PDF book by G3ETA
>>>
>>> Back in England the comms station uses a nice old RCA AR88 receiver which
>>> is shown
>>> several times in a couple of the episodes. Lots of close ups of radio ops
>>> sending and
>>> receiving encoded CW messages, with cans on their heads.
>>>
>>> This is probably the best TV drama series including WW2 radio I have
>> seen.
>>> If you have Netflix you can get 8 episodes of WISH ME LUCK as streaming
>>> video. I am not
>>> trying to promote them. I sure wish they had seasons 2 and 3 available!
>>>
>>> Bry AF4K (Ex-G3XLQ)
>>>
>> Robert Downs - Houston
>> wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
>> MVPA 9480
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