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

[ka8vit at ka8vit.com]

Yes, there were a number of these designs during WW2. 
 
Several people wrote in to QST magazine about foxhole
radios during World War II.

Lieutenant Paul M. Cornell, W8EFW wrote of a design he
used in the Pacific in 1945.

It was one of the first such articles that mentioned using
a pencil lead for the point contact.

His article was printed in the September 1945 issue of QST
Magazine.
 
73 - Bill KA8VIT





On January 17, 2012 at 7:22 AM "C.Whitaker" <whitaker at pa.net> wrote:

> 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
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USS COD Amateur Radio Club - W8COD
WW2 Submarine USS COD SS-224 (NECO)

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