[Central-Electronics] 200V in the Kennedy Bunker

[manualman at juno.com]

Lots of stuff when I Googled "JFK Bunker in Florida".
Try this and click on the picture arrows. The Central Electronics is
clearly shown in one of the pictures:
Copy and paste link below to browser. Watch for second line wrap-around
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/19/us-usa-jfk-bunker-idUSBRE9AI0MQ
20131119

Pete, wa2cwa
http://www.manualman.com


On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 10:06:49 -0800 "Tom Rousseau" <tomr at gorge.net>
writes:
> I was surprised not to see any posting about this, so thought I 
> better
> share:
> 
> ABC news ran a video clip, evening news broadcast of 21 Nov 13, 
> about the
> JFK bunker in Florida. This was backup location for safe hiding 
> during the
> Cold War era.  David Muir hosted the tour of the modest underground
> fortress, with supplies for 30 days and for 30 people. Titled 
> "Inside the
> Bunker Built for President Kennedy, Family in Case of Nuclear War".
> 
> The interesting part for this group was the 1 second pan of the 
> radio
> facilities.  Of course there were the requisite military grade 
> radios, but
> also prominently nestled therein was a Central Electronics 200V.  I 
> suppose
> that the one-knob tuning feature might have been important to our 
> President.
> One frame zoomed in on the left side of the front panel showing the 
> mode
> switch clearly set to the CW position.  Apparently our astute 
> President was
> a keen Morse operator too!  :-)
> 
> I just checked the ABC website and could no longer find the video 
> clip.  I
> am disappointed that they didn't keep the clip alive longer than 
> five days,
> but perhaps someone in this group will have better skill than I at 
> finding
> this clip there or elsewhere.  The radios were shown in the 
> mid-third of the
> clip, as I recall.  Some quick keyboard manipulation will allow you 
> to
> select the frames of interest.
> 
> It was quite gratifying to see the 200V being selected for such an 
> important
> mission.
> 
> Tom  K7PJT