[CW] Gibson Girl

[Rick Dettinger]

No personal use.  I would like to try, if someone else was turning the crank. 
SOS was either automatic or hand sent.
4.8 watts at 500 KHz (probably KC at the time)
No xtal control
Used a kite for an antenna (aerial) 

see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_radio

73,
Rick Dettinger  K7MW



On Nov 17, 2012, at 7:50 PM, John Barnwell wrote:

> I was cruising ebay this evening, and was looking at a Gibson Girl. No, not the vixen beauties from the early days. The little self-contained transmitters which vessels carried to be used once safely afloat in the lifeboat. I recall performing a shipboard training exercise with one of these rascals. Bored everyone to utter tears. Does anyone have personal knowledge of one being used for it's intended purposes? I can't recall if the SOS was sent automatically, or if we had to send by hand? Does anyone recall the power output at full speed hand cranking?
> At any rate I thought this might be an interesting thread from fellow RM types.
> 73 John Barnwell, Ret. USCG
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