[Milsurplus] Collins Book

[Hue Miller]

WAIT !! The book talks about TCS IN JEEPS IN GERMANY. You gonna have to 
convince me of that.
As for such jeep able to communicate with PT in Pacific, even if rare 
occasion - that sounds like
some advertising for the the "Joystick Antenna" of the 1960s.
"The First 50 Years"  Ken Braband, 1983

From: Glen Zook
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 6:39 PM
To: Hue Miller ; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Collins Book

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

Website: http://k9sth.com

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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