[CW] Gibson Girl

[Stan Barr]

On 18/11/12 03:50, 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

As I schoolboy in the '50s, I had one of the early ones, they were cheap
on the surplus market.  Never tried it (naturally!) but they sent SOS
automatically on 500KHz.  Key fitted as well.

Additional: a quick google search found this site:
http://wftw.nl/gibsongirl/gibsongirl.html


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Cheers and 73,
Stan Barr G0CLV GQRP-3369 FISTS-667  g0clv at dsl.pipex.com

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