[Hallicrafters] SX-28 competitors in the 1940's

[edben]

Hello Ken and the rest:

Just checked out that website on the SS John Brown.  Yes, I've seen it
before.  I did notice the reference and photo showing the Ham equipment "in
a little room just aft of the Radio Room".  Unless I'm mistaken, that looks
like the Radio Officer's shower!  Only other possibility would be that it
was the battery room, really an integral part of the radio room.   I sure
hope they have kept the battery room intact, essential as it was, to the
Radio room's emergency operation.

I've never heard of a Radio Room being sealed.  The transmitters were
sealed.  Except for very rare occasions (Like traversing the Suez Canal) the
seals stayed in place and the ship's transmitters were never used, except in
dire emergency, until after the war was over.  You are right, we Radio
Operators were a rather privileged group.  After checking in with Mackay
Radio (Or Radiomarine Corp of Amer) and ordering necessary supplies for the
next trip, we pretty well had our time to ourselves.  I'd sure like to be
able to retrace the paths of some of those on-shore excursions again.  I've
never had the chance to get overseas again, since "retiring" in the summer
of 1946 to return to college.

        Ed Benjamin  ----      former Chief Radio Operator of the Liberty
Ships,  SS Ignatius Donnelly (3 voyages including the London to Normandy
"shuttle" in 1944), SS William Tyler Page (2 voyages to northern Russia, SS
Joseph T. Robinson (1 voyage) and the Victory Ship SS Attleboro ((3
voyages).


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth D. Grimm, K4XL" <kgrimm at adelphia.net>
To: "edben" <edben at prodigy.net>; "Barry Hauser" <barry_hauser at juno.com>;
<gpewitt at execpc.com>
Cc: <tlogan7 at cox.net>; <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] SX-28 competitors in the 1940's


> This is one of the most fascinating threads I've read here on the
> Hallicrafters reflector in quite a while.  My interest, beyond the radio
> aspect, involves a now deceased friend, Bob Tidwell, N5UM, who was also
> a "sparks" on a liberty ship and my father, who helped build the ships
> at the Todd-Houston yard.  I've done some web surfing looking for
> information on the Liberty ships and have found quite a bit about them.
> One site that should be of particular interest to those of you reading
> this, is VE3FAB's website which includes photos and a description of the
> radio room on the Liberty ship, SS John Brown.
>
> http://webhome.idirect.com/~jproc/ve3fab/jbradrm.html
>
> 73,
> Ken K4XL
> k4xl at arrl.net
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "edben" <edben at prodigy.net>
> To: "Barry Hauser" <barry_hauser at juno.com>; <gpewitt at execpc.com>
> Cc: <tlogan7 at cox.net>; <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
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> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] SX-28 competitors in the 1940's  --Edben
notes:   That's right!  This all started with the SX-28 -- and this old
radio operator has never had his hands on one!
>