[Hallicrafters] color of sx-25

[D.B. Fischer, W8DBF]

What great information from somebody who was there. Thanks Ed. His younger
brother was my high school Chemistry and Physics teacher, by the way.	
	
If anyone else who was there would care to comment, you have our attention, mine
for certain. 	
	
Carry on - 	


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From: edben <edben at prodigy.net>
To: Rich.Oliver at lowell.edu; W2uhabud at wmconnect.com
Cc: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] color of sx-25
Date: Friday, February 27, 2004 11:40 AM

What?  Fight a war with "borrowed" equipment?  Yes, it really happened, and
I wish it had been a Hallicrafters!

As Chief Radio Operator on three different Liberty Ships (and one Victory
Ship) during WWII, I spent around three months on the Ignatius Donnelly,
shuttling troops from the Port of London to the Allied beach head at
Normandy. Our Liberty Ship had been chartered to the British Ministry of War
Transport "for the duration" of the Normandy Invasion.  At the first "convoy
conference" (on June 6, 1944) we radio operators were all issued USED CAR
RADIOS, plus a storage battery to operate them!  The radios had been
modified to cover the frequencies used for the "R/T" - radio telephone, of
course - communications.  The calibration of those sets was pathetic, but I
found this out the hard way.  In testing, as the convoy was moving down the
Thames River, I completely failed to find the test broadcast, until the
destroyer doing the test finally came right alongside our ship.  Only then
could  I find the broadcast, several hundred kilocycles (This was 1944 and
"kilohertz" hadn't been invented yet) away from where my receiver said it
should have been!  But those radios worked pretty well.  With its storage
battery, it was even "portable" and we could take it right out on deck (it
was summer, remember?) to see everything that was going on. Our regular
radio gear saw no use at all until our shuttle service as a troop carrier
ended and we were finally able to return to "normal" war-time duties in
September.

One of those shuttle trips included a shipload of Canadian troops.  That was
probably the happiest trip of all -- something like "Old Home Week"!
                            Ed Benjamin, Strictly a listener today.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Oliver" <Rich.Oliver at lowell.edu>
To: <W2uhabud at wmconnect.com>
Cc: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>

 All this info is second-hand for me; does anyone in the group have
 personal experience with any of this?

 73, Rich, KC9GQ


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