[Milsurplus] "Across The Pacific" PBS Documentary Premiers tonight! (North Carolina)

[MICHAEL BITTNER]

Hi Nick,

Thanks for sending the link for Brian's talk on the radios used in the "Across the Pacific" PBS documentary.  This and other information Brian sent to me clears up my questions about the Adcock array.

Brian,

Thanks for the pix and other information you sent, and thanks for your contributions to the making of this film series.  I am still baffled by the strange loop antenna shown in the film.  Your pictures confirm that the film accurately depicts the actual loop construction, but I have never seen a loop wound like that one before.  I am still wondering how this thing works and why Leuteritz made this departure from the traditional helically or spiral wound loops that were well established in Navy practice at the time and continue to be used in air, sea and ground DF applications today?


BTW, during the navigation part of my Navy flight training, I flew in a Martin PBM-5 Mariner flying boat on a route around the Caribbean similar to Trippe's early route.  We went from Corpus Christi to Panama, Trinidad, Gitmo and back to Corpus Christi.  LF DF and LORAN A were the principle navigation radios used plus celestial navigation and smoke bombs dropped in the water to measure drift.  Also, I couldn't help noticing in the title photo of the Martin seaplane flying over the partially completed Golden Gate Bridge that a hatch is partially open (almost like a speed brake) on the top of the rear fuselage.  Probably someone taking photos out of the hatch?  I flew over and under the Golden Gate Bridge many times while flying SH34J helicopters out of the old Alameda Naval Air Station during my time in the Naval Reserve. 

Mike, W6MAB


> On June 7, 2020 at 9:25 PM Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     Brian's talk on contributing to this film are at
>     http://www.dwepe.com/FARCVideos/2019-11-11%2019-30-05.mp4 
>     starting at 0:22:20
>     Nick
> 
> 
>     On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 4:37 PM Brian Harrison < briankn4r at gmail.com mailto:briankn4r at gmail.com > wrote:
> 
>         > >         Hi all,
> > 
> >         For North Carolinians, the new 3-hour PBS documentary about the early days of Pan American Airways premiers tonight!!!!
> > 
> >         Pan Am was “the” chosen instrument of the United States before, during and even after WWII. The bases set up by Pan AM across the Pacific (Midway, Wake Island, Guam, etc) played a huge role in the war.
> > 
> >         Please be sure to tune into PBS (North Carolina Channel) tonight (Sunday June 7) from 8 PM - 11 PM Eastern to watch all three episodes of “Across The Pacific”, back-to-back!!!!!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >                     o Airborne
> >                     o Sunday, June 7, 08:00 pm on North Carolina Channel https://proweb.myersinfosys.com/wunc/airlist/4.4/1369090/detail
> >                     o 
> >                     o Latin Laboratory
> >                     o Sunday, June 7, 09:00 pm on North Carolina Channel https://proweb.myersinfosys.com/wunc/airlist/4.4/1369091/detail
> >                     o 
> >                     o Another Ocean
> >                     o Sunday, June 7, 10:00 pm on North Carolina Channel https://proweb.myersinfosys.com/wunc/airlist/4.4/1369092/detail
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >         The North Carolina Channel (over the air) is 58.4
> >         For NC Spectrum users it is channel 1276
> > 
> >         Also, everyone can watch the first two episodes over the internet now here:
> >         https://www.panam.org/across-the-pacific-film
> >         (The third episode will be posted here for internet viewing on or after June 11)
> > 
> >         Please spread the word!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >     > 
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