[Milsurplus] FW: "The Loewe 3 NF and Manfred von Ardenne" Wtr. 2020

[Hubert Miller]

The most recent, Winter 2020 edition of the Antique Wireless Association Journal has a very 
interesting article about the developer and development of the 3NF tube, the first multisection
radio tube. However one claim in the article is nonsensical, and I wrote the editor, calling this 
claim into question. Here's my note. I received a reply today affirming that yes, this was reported
and was in fact possible, the radios "could have been carried in special backpacks" by "radical
groups roaming the city [ Berlin ]. 
The reply only reinforces my conclusion that the author has no real knowledge of what WWI radio
looked like. 
Yes, "tempest in a teapot".  But I think such fantasies should be called out. 
Your opinion is welcomed, and if anyone's actually interested, I can forward the reply from the 
author, and my reply to that.
-Hue Miller 

>From: Hubert Miller 
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2021 5:59 PM
To: awajournaleditor
Subject: "The Loewe 3 NF and Manfred von Ardenne" Wtr. 2020

I found this article very interesting but when I came to this statement, "These radical units...among 
the thousands of soldiers recently demobilized...Using wireless sets they brought back from the front...
attempted violent disruption of the new democratic processes in Germany", I thought, "???". 

Most of the wireless sets "brought back" were surely field spark sets of modest size and low power,
such as the transmitter pictured recently in a Journal article. Ordinary person-to-person communications 
at this time in Germany was not via wireless. So how did low power spark transmitters disrupt anything, 
other than possibly the radio spectrum? That claim seems quite a stretch.
Hue Miller
Newport, Oregon