[Boatanchors] [Milsurplus] WWII, Germany and Their 170 KC C.D. Net

[Richard Knoppow]

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From: "Charlie , W5COV" <cvest at cox.net>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] [Milsurplus] WWII, Germany and 
Their 170 KC C.D. Net


>A fellow that was in the Signal Corps in WWII , mentioned 
>it to me when he found out that I run a Lowfer beacon. The 
>USA was using it in the Aleutians, where he was and was his 
>specialty. Likely it was also being used on the Alaska main 
>land too. He ran a commercial radio shop about 50 miles 
>from me, but has been retired for years, but still used to 
>go there every day so old radio friends could stop by and 
>hang out, after his wife passed away.
>
> My dad was also in the Signal Corps in the Aleutians, and 
> where he was they just used ground line telephones in the 
> local area. EE8's "I think". My memory is not so good 
> either, but dad was in cryptography and the equipment he 
> used was not his primary area of knowledge.
>
> I don't know if Ed is still living or not. I have not been 
> up to visit with him in at least 5 years, but I think I 
> will check, because he had a huge amount of knowledge on 
> the LF comms , that were indeed radio.
>
> Charlie, W5COV

    Maybe not relevant to this but remember that the band 
around 170 khz was used for broadcasting in Europe and I 
think still is.  Germany had a megawatt station at Munich on 
by memory 173 khz. This station was maintained by the U.S. 
for a time after the war. I am pretty sure I've seen details 
on the web but must don't have time to search right now


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com