[Milsurplus] Navy SSB

[Jim DiMauro]

The TDQ operated from 100 to 156 MHz, so it would not
have been part of the test.

Jim
w2bvm

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<cosmoline at ba-watch.org> wrote:
> 
> Now that we've got the KWS-1/75A4/C97/summer-of-'56
> story right, has
> anyone heard the Navy version?
> 
> It goes that perhaps 8 A4/KWS-1 pairs with 2mhz,
> 80m, 40m, 8mhz, 20m, &
> 15m were ordered/delivered in fall-of-56.  Test was
> held off Azores w.
> SSB ships sailing every which-a-way comparing their
> big (TDQ?) AM things
> with the ham-jobs.
> 
> One cruiser still had daytime 2180khz contact as far
> as Scotland and Navy sed
> 
> "Stop the contest."
> 
> This is oral tradition from a retired admiral who's
> a ham/Collins-nut &
> a stroke-victim.  Still lives & won't quote w/o
> permission
> 
> Sound like a area-51 story?
> 
> Only substance is I know whereabouts of a
> so-calibrated KWS-1.
>
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