[Milsurplus] German Command conversion

[jcoward5452 at aol.com]

Wasn't the old "Police Band" and of course the old "Marine Band" down 
there?I have my Dad's old Apelco (5 TV sweep tubes in parralel) in the 
closet just waiting for the day I finish the new shop.Of course I have 
to start building the new shop,but two daughters' educations 
intervene...
  And if memory serves me,didn't Doc Savage have all his great cars and 
planes operating in that frequency range?I can't remember what Tom 
Swift and his Dad used for comm work...
 Jay KE6PPF






-----Original Message-----
From: D C *Mac* Macdonald <k2gkk at hotmail.com>
To: kargo_cult at msn.com; Military Surplus Mail List 
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Sent: Sun, Jul 19, 2009 3:50 pm
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] German Command conversion



Ground wave propagation at 160 meters is better than that at 80 meters

according to some text in at least one of the older ARRL Mobile Manuals;

i.e., better for local coverage, say in a metorpolitan area.  The big 
issues

are antenna effectiveness for mobiles and atmospheric interference, but

the claim was that 160 still would serve more effectively in the long 
run.



73 - Mac, K2GKK/5

Oklahoma City, OK




> From: kargo_cult at msn.com
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:43:49 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] German Command conversion
>
> > From: Rich MC Clung <sgm460122 at yahoo.com>
> > I was stationed in Germany 1966-69 and while there?I collected 
several
> > German nomenclatured ARC-5 pieces. I picked up a XMTR, RCVR and MD
> > units?that had new dial scales made from brass and calibrated to 
cover
> > the full 160M band. There was a dual XMTR mount with a RCVR mount
> > modified to fit in one side of the XMTR mount.
>

>

>
> Rich- do you mean the rig was calibrated for the actual 160m ham band?
> Also the 2 rack mod to hold both transmitter and receiver was right 
out
> of
> one of the conversion articles. I wonder why the use of such a low 
freq
> for mobile communications. That does however comply with the pre-1945
> German predilection for use of LF and MF for vehicle communications.
> -Hue Miller
>

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