[CW] Fake or Real? MGY

Tue Feb 11 01:16:14 EST 2020

    The maggie was a type of detector using some aspects of a 
wire recorder. An interesting device.

On 2/10/2020 8:25 PM, ROBERT DOHERTY wrote:
> Marconi used a wire recorder in 1902- 1914 … a " Maggie"
>
> http://www.sparkmuseum.com/MAGGIE.HTM
>
> Whitey   K1VV /  W1AA
>> On February 10, 2020 at 7:02 PM n7dc at comcast.net wrote:
>>
>> I will first state, I havent looked up when wire recorders 
>> were first in use, but I happned to own one in 1960s and 
>> actually used it on my ham radio desk while going to college.  
>> I copied both cw and also some voice AM signals in my SWL 
>> listening.  I recorded my own cw signals , from time to time, 
>> as well.  It worked, but a lot of trouble, and noises on it.  
>> It made a good CQ transmission, for voice.  HI.
>>
>> N7DC at ARRL.NET
>> Ex WN5QMX,WA5UKR,ET2US,ET3USA,SV0WPP,VS6DD,N7DC/YV5/G5CTB
>> QSL Bureau, DIRECT, LOTW Preferred, eQSL used but upload at a 
>> courtesy only, as do not use the system for awards.
>>
>>> On February 10, 2020 at 8:08 AM "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." 
>>> <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Charles Apgar, W2MN recorded Sayville, NY radio, WSL on an 
>>> Edison wax cylinder recorder. Most of the cylinders were lost 
>>> they had been on display at NBC radio in NYC.
>>>
>>> 73
>>>
>>> DR
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020, 08:05 spud roscoe < 
>>> spudrve1bc at outlook.com <mailto:spudrve1bc at outlook.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Good Morning:
>>>
>>>     If my memory serves me correctly I remember reading
>>>     something of the court case over WSL during World War I.
>>>     In that the so called experts stated they did *not* know
>>>     of a devise that could record radio signals. Maybe if you
>>>     have access to that it will indicate fake because it was
>>>     four or five years after Titanic. Years ago I interviewed
>>>     some of the old operators that were operating around
>>>     then. I find it hard to believe there was a recording and
>>>     the Cape Race VCE logs on Titanic were lost in the fire
>>>     when the station burned in 1919.
>>>
>>>     Hope this helps.
>>>
>>>     73
>>>
>>>     Spud VE1BC
>>>
>>>     Sent from Mail
>>>     <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for
>>>     Windows 10
>>>
>>>     *From: *D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <mailto:n1ea at arrl.net>
>>>     *Sent: *February 10, 2020 7:09 AM
>>>     *To: *CW Reflector <mailto:cw at mailman.qth.net>
>>>     *Subject: *Re: [CW] Fake or Real? MGY
>>>
>>>     The narrator isn't me. There was a W5 callsign given at
>>>     the end, that man was born in 1920, he has an amazing
>>>     voice for a man that old.  Most likely the last letter of
>>>     his call got cut off.
>>>
>>>     I agree with your remarks, they spent a lot of time on a
>>>     fake recording, I think.
>>>
>>>     73
>>>
>>>     DR
>>>
>>>     On Mon, Feb 10, 2020, 00:52 Richard Knoppow
>>>     <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
>>>     <mailto:1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Now, having listened again to the entire thing with
>>>     introduction I find some of what I wanted is addressed
>>>     particularly the origin of the recording.
>>>         Is the narrator you David? If so I wish I had been a
>>>     little
>>>     more gentle in my remarks. Also, if its you, it makes my
>>>     judgement more toward the recording being genuine because
>>>     I know
>>>     you are a historian and generally pretty reliabl
>>>
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