[Hallicrafters] LORAN - was: Why I'm a Hallicrafters Guy

[Peter May]

I used to listen to Radio Peking back in thise days on an old Westinghouse
dual wave with randomly tuned long wire antenna, now that was entertainment!
All the funny nicknames they had for the allied forces in Vietnam....
Whatever happened to Peking? Did it go the same way as Mesopotamia, Bombay,
Ceylon and Rhodesia?
I didnt know what the LORAN /Woodpecker was caused by, I used to BS to my
mates that it was the "aircraft band" hehehe!


Regards
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie" <pincon at erols.com>
To: <Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] LORAN - was: Why I'm a Hallicrafters Guy


> If you're fairly close to a LORAN transmitter site and are using a mixer
> input radio with no RF stage, such as an S-38 or S-53A, you'll hear LORAN
> intermod on every signal in the HF spectrum!   Put a typical intermod
> generator pre-amp such as an Ameco PT-? ahead of just about ANY good radio
> and it'll come through loud and clear.  I grew up with it living off the
> main runway of Andrews Field ( Andrews AFB as it is known now) .  I used
to
> think they had an open mike on the B-29's until somebody told me what it
> was.
>
> 73' Charlie k3ICH
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marshall M. Dues" <mmdues at hal-pc.org>
> To: "Charlie" <pincon at erols.com>
> Cc: <Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, 03 May 2005 1:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] LORAN - was: Why I'm a Hallicrafters Guy
>
>
> > It could not have been LORAN (LOng RAnge Navigation) because it was
> > heard on many frequencies in the 3-30 megacycle HF spectrum, and LORAN
> > at that time operated in several segments of the 160 meter band only.
> > That's why we had power limitations that were different for daytime or
> > nighttime, and the power limits were different for different locations
> > in the US.  When I moved from Michigan to Houston, Texas in 1969, there
> > was an operating LORAN station on Galveston Island on the Texas gulf
> > coast.  In later years, the new LORAN-C operated in the VLF spectrum on
> > a frequency of exactly 100 Khz.  Microprocessors, memory chips,
> > software, and small packaging allowed LORAN Navigator set to be
> > practical in small aircraft instrument panel installations.  I put one
> > in my homebuilt plane years ago.  They still are being used, but GPS is
> > the superior navigation computer system used in aircraft today.
> >
> > You are right about the sound being like a B-29.  I always imagined I
> > was hearing a four engined bomber like a B-17 or B-24 as a child in
> > Clio, Michigan, before I became a novice. Short wave listening on the
> > family Philco floor radio revealed this phenomena to me in the '50s.
> >
> > No one has commented on or challenged my diathermy machine theory, yet.
> > Does anyone have anything to support that.  I remember Hurley Hospital
> > in Flint, Michigan had diathermy machines.  They were RF devices used to
> > heat body parts in medical testing.  I doubt the FCC had radiation
> > restrictions on that kind of equipment at that time, though.  The
> > signals were all over the HF spectrum.  And when people began getting
> > TVs in the '50s, you would get herringbone patterns on the picture tube!
> > What an aggravation that was!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Marshall Dues, WB5MYO
> > Katy, Texas (near Houston)
> >
> >
> >
> > Charlie wrote:
> > > I'm tellen ya, that's LORAN....  Sounds like all four engines on a
B-29
> > > running ever so slightly out of sync.
> > >
> > > Charlie k3ICH
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "David Hollander" <n7rk at cox.net>
> > > To: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
> > > Cc: <hankarn at pacbell.net>; "Jim Brannigan" <jbrannig at optonline.net>;
> > > "Langston, Mike" <MLangston at hcpriceco.com>;
> <Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>;
> > > "Gary Pewitt" <n9zsv at cei.net>
> > > Sent: Monday, 02 May 2005 11:55 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Why I'm a Hallicrafters Guy
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>The airplane noise I am referring to was not the woodpecker. I
remember
> > >>the woodpecker too well tearing up 20 meters while trying to work DX
> > >>over the pole in the evenings.
> > >>
> > >>Would still like to know what it was. It sounded like the continuous
> > >>roar of an airplane engine.
> > >>
> > >>Dave N7RK
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