[Milsurplus] Re: RAL

[Marty Reynolds]

>
> I do know that up until about the middle of WWII the
> ships at sea were required to carry a crystal detector
> emergency receiver for 500 KHz I think.  Maybe later.
> Per International Agreements and Treaties.
>

>... 'nother guy sez mcw (a2) req'd since no bfo

Norwegian put rule to sleep just 4 years back.  Seems there were scads old
trawlers
that still had 600hz ROTARY SPARK GAPS!

I've a RCA radiomarine tx that has 4 #10 tubes in a p-p Hartley.  Was run
on a 600hz
mo-gen & had a plug-board to move from company freq.s to calamity freq. (& of
course, chart for new "C" readings).  Minimalist is under-stmt.