[Milsurplus] YE-YG/ZB presentation this coming Wednesday

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 12 Nov 2016 at 17:25, Hubert Miller wrote:

> If you had the ARR-2 test set,

Which I do not have, unfortunately.

> you could actually have a working
> setup. As far as receive and transmit anyway. Devising a way to key
> the sectors would be your challenge. 

Yes. I had not planned to build or present a working unit, since, for one thing, the "hay-rake" 
antenna would be pretty large for the venue. I will have a BC-band ARC-5 receiver, the 
ARR-1 and the ARR-2 to show, but not to demonstrate as working. I suspect there isn't that 
much interest amongst this crew. The BC-band receiver will be working, and possibly the 
ARR-1, but I will have no 230 MHz signal for the audience to hear.

However, describing the system in as much detail as I can will be interesting. There will be 
several pilots, some of them ex-military, in the audience.
 
> I have not seen any ship manifest but i'd guess considering the
> crucial role of the equipment, that two transmitters would be onboard.

I would think so too.

> I would also guess the antenna would be most likely to give trouble.

Again, those are my thoughts too. A fairly large antenna at the absolute top of the ship, 
rotating at 2 RPM. All kinds of problems with this. Feeding it a signal would be difficult 
enough.

> I
> posted here long ago some quote from a WW2 Pacific carrier pilot
> reminisce where he mentioned an incident of trouble with the system's
> ship antenna.

I would love to have that for this presentation.

> I also posted here long ago about this surplus store in
> Seattle, it was in an old disused brick brewery in South Seattle, that
> had a YG transmitter in perfect condition. It sat there in one room
> for years, and no doubt became scrap metal when the business was
> liquidated.

Sigh.... :-(

> I have a listing of YG-YE stations
> throughout the Pacific in 1945 and i'll eventually post it. 

Thanks, Hugh. I would like to have that too.

Ken W7EKB

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