[Milsurplus] Latter-Dig of 'Great Escape' Tunnels Humbles

[KA8VIT]

A number of folks emailed !

I guess the folxhole radio thing struck a cord.

I learned of these from Paul Cornell, W8EFW (SK) who designed
these in the pacific.

He was a long time member of QCWA here in Cleveland, Ohio.

He used to display some of his original ones from WW2 at various
events around the Cleveland area.

Many of those who emailed mentioned needing a blued razor blade.

I could not find one anywhere !

I look all over town.

I "blued" this one by heating it with a map-gas torch and quenching 
it in
water.

73 - Bill KA8VIT


On 1/16/2012 2:13 PM, Robert Nickels wrote:
> On 1/16/2012 12:34 PM, ka8vit at ka8vit.com wrote:
>> On a similar note, here is a Foxhole Radio I built a number of year ago.
> Very cool, Bill.    I made a number of them as a kid, got me out of
> writing more than one science report ;-)
>
> I've uploaded the article where I learned about them from a 1945 book
> published by Popular Science called "Boys Fun Book", and you can read
> it, including some history about the Foxhole Radio, here:
> *http://tinyurl.com/6vqds5n
>
> *The neatest thing about this book is that is printed on very thin
> paper, and a note inside states that it's a special wartime edition,
> that is in compliance with government regulations regarding conservation
> of paper.
>
> 73 Bob W9RAN
> _

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Bill Chaikin, KA8VIT
USS COD Amateur Radio Club - W8COD
WW2 Submarine USS COD SS-224 (NECO)

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