[Milsurplus] Loss of the Thresher, 1963

[Nick England]

And SSB acoustic at that. Not knowing anything about the field, I was
surprised to come across a manual for the AN/BQC-1 SSB acoustic
communication set. The set provides SSB voice comms at 8.3-11.1 kc, plus CW
at 24.26kc. 1 watt output to a transducer. For speech, range is 500 yards
minimum, for CW, 2000-5000 yards. - Contractor was Bendix, Approved by
BuShips March 1949.
Cheers,
Nick

On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 7:32 PM howard holden <holden7471 at msn.com> wrote:
>
> Acoustic. Sound travels fairly well through water. The Thresher was in
company with a tender, working on diving tests.
>
> One thing I participated in as a CW op in the Navy, after the sinking of
the Scorpion in 1968, was listening for test radio signals from
automatically released buoys. I do not know of any such systems actually
being deployed.
>
> Howie WB2AWQ
>
> On 10/5/2019 3:57 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:
>
> My question is, what system did the Thresher use to "radio" to the
surface ?
>
> -Hue Miller
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