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

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

Thank you, Jack. That is some of the info I needed.

Ken W7EKB


On 12 Nov 2016 at 18:46, Jack Sullivan via Milsurplus wrote:

> 
> The Stewart-Warner manual on the YG-1 gives the 
> output power of the transmitter as 25 watts it was 
> tuned to 246 MHz. Power consumption with heaters 
> on & key down was 920 watts but this may have 
> included the antenna synchro motors & the motors 
> that turned the signal discs. I have both the manual, 
> an incomplete set of the signal discs in its steel box & 
> 2 examples of the R-1/ARR-1 along with all the 
> airborne gear except for the big HF receiver as well as 
> the very heavy DC power supply for the YG-1.
> 
> Admiral King was so impressed by this system in the 
> late 1930s that he ordered all the carriers to be 
> equipped with them. Did he have foreknowledge of 
> the Japanese attack & the following Pacific carrier 
> war? A lot of people believe that Rossevelt forced the 
> Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor so that we could get 
> the US into the war against the Germans because it 
> looked likely that England would be invaded & the 
> Nazis would wind up in British Canada.
> 
> Similar systems (YE?) were installed on many Pacific 
> islands with airstrips but not Iwo Jima, likely because 
> it was too close to the Japanese home islands & the 
> signal could have been picked up by the enemy. 
> Throughout the war they never were able to figure out 
> how we found our way back to our carriers & 
> emergency airstrips.
> 
> FWIW, my wife's late father was Admiral King's 
> personal physician during WWII & is mentioned by 
> name in King's memoir.
> 
> Jack



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