[CW] Fake or Real? MGY
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Tue Feb 11 01:20:13 EST 2020
I have a small MIL wire recorder, and several unused rolls of wire around
my basement somewhere
On February 11, 2020 1:16:28 AM Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:
> 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
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> *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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