[Milsurplus] never @ a hamfest

[Marty Reynolds]

That.s the 400kw Alexansnderson GE alternator at Haiku Hawaii during ww2
Ran down near 21kc & cud be copied submerged in the sea of Japan.
Haiku is a volcano pit, a caldera.  About 600' deep & the alternator was
at the bottom.  Capacity hat wires at top  holding up vertical radiator

Antenna tuning house was spark-filled structure.  You got down to these
'guts' on a tram rwy.

There was a twin sent to Midway and never seen again.  They were the last of
new examples & tho shipped in 1940, had been in inventory since 1928.

Tube tx-en for m-f rx & diversity antennas stopped new alexanderson
installs in 30s.  The fact they cud be copied underwater seemed only
appealing to submariners.  Signals that low were largely propagation
independent

Think SAQ in Sweden, this unit, and a German unit called Goliath at Nauen
soldiered on thru WW2.  SAQ still lives & was used for telegrams.

I wasn't born with this data,  it came from the awa quarterly in the last
few years. And what's here is fm memory.

Did I say you'll never see one @ a hamfest?

  Marty