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

[C.Whitaker]

de WB2CPN
When I was a teenager during WWII the story was that the Foxhole Radio
was devised by the troops in Italy.  There was a question about who thought
of it first, we or the Germans.  It took some Scrounging to find the parts.
The LF keys on a piano cold be unwound.  Toilet paper rolls for coil forms,
EE-8 and other headsets for listening.  Any wire in the air made a good
antenna.  With the proper length of wire the RF coil was self tuned.
73  Clete


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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