[Milsurplus] Collins Book

[Glen Zook]

During World War II, there were numerous occasions where amateur radio operators in the United States were able to copy communications between German tanks, especially in north Africa and Italy, on frequencies adjacent to, and even within, the amateur radio 10-meter band.  Therefore, I really believe that communications between PT Boats in the far western Pacific and with Jeeps in Germany was certainly possible.  Of course, not every day.  But, remember, when the 10 and 15 meter bands are open, communications over thousands of miles is possible with very low power.

Back in 1960, I had a Heath CB-1 (same basic radio as the "Tenner") that had been moved up to 29.600 MHz which used to be the old mobile calling frequency (long before it became the FM calling frequency) that I used mobile with a 96 inch long whip.  If you were really lucky, that unit might put out between 1.5 watts and 2.0 watts.  I used to work all over the country with the rig and even worked some DX!

 
Glen, K9STH


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________________________________
 From: Hue Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com>
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 8:25 PM
Subject: [Milsurplus] Collins Book
 
Was going thru my paper deciding what goes and what stays. Decided the
Collins 50 Year Book stays a bit longer. However....

The book says that at Pearl Harbor date, USN planes equipped with 4-channel
radios which it suggests, were difficult to change freqs on. That would have 
to
be the ATD. However I don't think the ATD was actually issued to any degree.

Also sez TCS was in use "from PT boats skipping across the waters of the 
Pacific
to jeeps motoring along the autobahns of Germany. "  That last part - rather
unlikely? Altho there were DUKWs used in river crossings, yes?

Also interesting stats on ARC-27 and GRC-27. Of the ~40,000 ARC-27 produced,
I wonder if a single one is still operative?  Or like stagecoaches and 
vacuum tube
fax machines ( I mean civilian ones - not your PSC-1 or whatever your green 
one
is named, hi ) is there no reason whatever to have one operational now, and 
also
too much work? ( I recall when I lived in Omaha, one winter only ( yes, I 
did tough
it out and could have lived there, but maybe not so happily ever after ) I 
visited
some ham radio store that sold classic ham rigs, at prices too rich for me 
at the
time, and the proprietor told me he had a stock of ARC-27's somewhere else.
-Hue Miller 

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