***Possible Spam*** Re: [Milsurplus] Re: Ricebox hams on WW2 warships...

[Meir WF2U]

70 year old gear can be as reliable as you maintain and treat it.  Morse is
not a dying art, the proof is the number of hams joining various CW nets and
clubs since the “demise” of CW  by dumbing down the license procedure.

I can receive signals at least as well on WW2 vintage Navy receivers such as
the RBB/RBC and others as on modern radios. 

 

Using modern gear just to show radios in operation on WW2 vintage ships is
like me, as a member of the Brigade of the American Revolution, a national
organization to the education of the public as to the times and life of the
soldiers during the American Revolution(and yes, the organization includes
British units as well) using an Enfield SMLE or a US  ’03 Springfield rifle,
if not an M1 Garand, instead of the 18th Century Brown Bess or Charleville
musket – just because 18th Century firearms are more “reliable”? Or maybe we
should drive Jeeps or ATV’s across the field instead of cavalry with real
horses, because horses are obsolete as a means of transportation?

 It would be completely misleading the audience (and ourselves) and indeed,
it’d be a contemptuous treatment of the memory of the ones who were actually
living those times, using the same “tools of the trade”…

 

73, Meir WF2U

Landrum, SC

 

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In a message dated 29/10/2007 11:22:27 GMT Standard Time, arc5 at ix.netcom.com
writes:

I decided I would not participate.
I feel for me to do so would be
false and disrespectful to those veterans

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I hear what your saying Dave but taken to its end conclusion, by your rules
we really should not even be discussing it via this medium but using paper
and fountain pens with real ink.

 

I have done many displays etc where I would have loved to use just vintage
gear. Truth is, 70 odd years on its not reliable. Sets running to phones
cannot be heard by the public. Morse is a dying art and again the public do
not understand it. The training (laugh) that modern hams get means they
cannot hear weak AM stations and do not know how to fully drive their modern
Japanese box to actually get the best out of it (how many times I hear 'my
menus are very complicated on my little lcd screen'). Most vintage sets need
a three man team just to operate and maintain, loads of wires, power units,
batteries etc etc etc. 

 

So, sometimes, it's a choice between putting on a display or putting a
station on the air to demonstrate 'radio'. I think the best solution is
always, if putting on a 'on-air' station to commemorate military operations
is to ensure you have a good 'display' of vintage equipment used during and
by the events theme, Army, Navy, Airforce, WW2, Korea etc. That way folk get
to see 'real' gear but can experience 'radio' easily. 

 

Military comms were in the main short range. The long distance stuff needs
BIG transmitters and aerials. At a display it might be hard to get a real
good aerial out, and trying to use a BIG transmitter is hard enough in the
shack with all the tools and bits close to hand but out in the field,
portable, miles from home, not easy. Sure you can get the BC611 to talk to
the guy at the end of the field with another 611 but punters needs more to
keep them amused, at least transcontinental contacts, only achievable using
ssb I fear. Hence the bit of modern kit, well hidden behind the BIG set. 

 

Just a thought. 

 

Ben. G4BXD


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