[Milsurplus] "Receiver Radiation, Oh No! "

[J. Forster]

Small universal electric motors make a LOT of broadband noise. Couple that
with hundreds of shavers....

Not that idiotic,

-John

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> If you look in National Geographics from 1942, you will E H Scott ads
> touting
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> their new "Low Radiation Receivers". Keep in mind their was a lot of fear,
> almost
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> paranoia, about so called saboteurs, spies, and electronic radiation.
> Technical
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> Radio Company of SF-CA also built an overbuilt, overpriced morale type
> reciever
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> for the military. This was at a time when electric razors were banned on
> ships lest
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> submarines somehow track the ships by hearing them. At the same time US
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> manufacturers' radios were being carefully vetted according to FCC
> specifications,
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> the German U-boats happily sailed with a standard 6-tube entertainment
> morale
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> radio which was a rebadged commercial portable and car radio, and English
>
> freighters sailded with newly manufactured 1-V-2 regen receivers ( RF,
> det,
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> 2 audio ). I have such an example, built by International Radio Company.
> Apparently,
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> the UK authorities weren't too much bothered by the concept of "receiver
>
> radiation."  -Hue Miller
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