[Boatanchors] Gates Radio and RCA and WWII equipment

[J. Forster]

I don't know about any specifics, but an early boss once told me 40+ years
ago he worked for a company making big transmitters during WW II.

He always wondered what they were for, and guessed they were used to
barrage jam German communications on the night before D-Day. This sounds
plausible for a high power transmitter maker.

-John

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> The March 1, 2013 issue of RadioWorld magazine has a Remembering Gates
> Radio
> story and I noted two comments on Gates Radio's involvement in making
> transmitters
> during WWII.
>
> Associated with one of the photos was a comment regarding Parker Gates'
> knowledge
> of the D-Day Invasion, apparently associated with a contract to "provide
> transmitters
> for the invasion."
>
> Another comment was that Gates Radio received several subcontracts from
> RCA for
> the manufacture of military short wave transmitters.
>
> Were any Gates branded transmitters used in support of the D-Day invasion?
>  Were
> these transmitters perhaps part of the RCA subcontracting and produced
> with RCA's
> name?
>
> Were these comms tranmsitters or were they broadcast transmitters?
>
> 73
>
> Sheldon
>
> http://www.rwonline.com/article/remembering-the-gates-radio-company/218087
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