[Milsurplus] You Rich Boys Better Jump On It....

[Gene Smar]

Al et al:

     I just read an article on the IP-501 in the latest (May?) QST.  It's in 
the column about BAs.  FYI.


73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Klase" <ark at ar88.net>
To: <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] You Rich Boys Better Jump On It....


> This appears to be an IP-501 from 1918 with about 5 inches sawed off the 
> right side.  I guess I should be glad mine is reasonably intact, even if 
> it has a bunch of cobbled up parts.
> http://www.njarc.org/rtm/Regen_Inages/IP-501-2.jpg
>
> Al
>
> On 4/23/2013 1:00 AM, Mike Morrow wrote:
>> Dave wrote:
>>
>>> WWI-era Navy receiver:
>>>
>>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/171028364143
>> One with a miniature tube added.  What could the fellow who
>> modified this thing been thinking?  This unit would have been
>> rare even before the first miniature tube was ever made.
>>
>> As far as WWI electronics, I'll have to be satisfied with my
>> 1918 SCR-54-A (BC-14-A) crystal set.
>>
>> I doubt that any -A models made it to the AEF before the Armistice,
>> but I've read that the earlier SCR-54 did see WWI field use with
>> artillery regiments for one-way communications from spotter aircraft
>> that used the SCR-65 (BC-15) miniature quenched-gap spark transmitter.
>> This has been claimed as the first ever use of aircraft radio
>> transmission.  It almost certainly is, at least for military aircraft.
>>
>> I've often wondered if my grandfather's unit, the 3rd Division,
>> 18th Field Artillery, used the SCR-54.
>>
>> Maybe some day I'll get the matching SCR-65 transmitter.
>>
>> Mike / KK5F
>>
>>
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> Al Klase - N3FRQ
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