[Boatanchors] [Milsurplus] Hallicrafters and A-Bombs (Hello, NSA and HSA!)

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they were also used  for ECM  work  per morgan mcmahon   ww2 USN radar.ecm 
officer
 
 
In a message dated 3/30/2014 2:31:24 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
w8au at sssnet.com writes:

At 10:55  AM 3/30/2014, David Stinson wrote:
>A friend sent me this link of photos  from the preparations to drop 
>Little Boy and Fatman.
>Fifth  photo down shows a rack of equipment used to test
>Little Boy.  At  the top is a Hallicrafters set.
>Wonder why?  Sure wish I had a  hi-rez of this one,
>but I supposed it will be buried in some  senseless
>"Top Secret" (Hello again, NSA!) archive until Judgment  Day.

The Halli receiver is the S-27/S-36  VHF model   27  - 140 MHz
Must have been RF devices in LittleBoy that needed  testing?

Perry    w8au

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