[Elecraft] OT: Before Elecraft, Before Hea...

[Bill W5WVO]

Great!! Wow, I didn't know they used to make short doc films like that. I 
guess that might be one reason why so many ordinary people in the old days 
knew what ham radio was, even though the percentage of hams per capita was 
actally much lower than it is today. And real CW! (Lousy spacing, but real.)

I vaguely recall that at some point (maybe during WWII) they decided that you 
couldn't replicate real CW messages in a movie -- probably because of 
espionage fears. Does anyone remember more about that, or am I imagining it?

Don't know where they got 15,000 miles from Teller, AK to New Zealand, 
though -- it's actually half that. Maybe they just decided that 7,500 miles 
didn't sound like far enough.  ;-)  (Long path is 17,500 miles, but 
trans-polar -- twice. Doubt such a path would work due to absorption.)

Bill / W5WVO


Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> Some of us have been pounding brass and caressing a mic long enough to
> remember building and using gear much like this.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBGIdf0VjQ4