[Boatanchors] The House on 92nd Street

[Jim Haynes]

A while back someone posted a pointer to a history of FCC radio intercept
activities centered on WW-II.  Now I can't find it.  One item of note
was that they seemed to use Hallicrafters SX-28 receivers almost 
exclusively.  And with BC-221 frequency meters for finding the frequency
they wanted to monitor.  The British preferred HRO receivers for intercept
work, apparently because being single-dial they were easier to reset to
an exactly frequency once you had found it.  Maybe the Brits got all the
HROs and the FCC had to make do with Hallicrafters; at any rate they were
appreciative of Hallicrafters, said that the company kept them supplied
with whatever they asked for.

One of the anecdotes concerned a clandestine radio station operating
on Long Island, as I recall, and communicating with Germany.  Seems like
the FCC located it, and then was told by some other agency to ignore it,
and then was told to find it - lots of mixed signals due to secrecy of
different agencies not communicating with one another.  Ultimately it
turned out to be a station that the Germans thought was operated by their
spies, but in fact had been taken over by the FBI and was transmitting
false information to Germany.

On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, K3PID wrote:

> If you get a chance watch a 1940’s FBI documentary by the subject name.  Kind of a corny 90 min. WWII spy movie set in NYC but some great shots of boatanchors...
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> Ron K3PID
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