[Milsurplus] is that an oscillator I hear whining?!

[aGEnuine ham]

On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 15:07:19 -0500 (EST) William Donzelli <aw288@osfn.org>
writes:
> > OK, now let's go back to 1939 - 1945.  Receivers, radio equipment 
> in
> > general, was in short supply.
> 
> I have to disagree. Even in the late 1930s, ships often had quite an 
> 
> array of electronics. By late war, electronics were everywhere on 
> the ships.

One set of widely studied and described radio configurations were those
aboard the Coast Guard and Navy ships which searched for Amelia Earhart
in 1937.  Pretty rudimentary stuff.  Maybe they shortchanged old Putnam
and withheld the better equipped ships, in spite of what was promised.

> 
> >  How many receivers were actually installed
> > on, say, a destroyer or cruiser, or battleship, for that matter.  
> It is
> > an entirely different matter in this day and age, but back in the 
> days of
> > "Sparks" and the "Radio Room", were there actually receivers 
> elsewhere on
> > the ship?
> 
> To give you an idea - BB59 has radios and radars in 20 or 25 
> "rooms". I 
> think there are seven proper "Radio" rooms, plus scads of radar 
> spaces. On a 
> small ship, there may not be as many radio and radar rooms, but far 
> more sonar 
> rooms. 

Ah, yes, as it was configured when finally decommissioned for the second
(third?) time in 1965.  But, it did spend some time in Norfolk just
before that, about which I have no real details.  At least it didn't
suffer the indignity of getting guided missile tubes like a couple of the
old battleships did.  No longer a sterling example of a WW2
configuration.  Now, how about digging into the records and see what the
original compartment assignment was when it was commissioned in 1941. 
The builder is long gone, is there a set of original prints on board?

> 
> William Donzelli
> aw288@osfn.org 


George
W5VPQ

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