[MRCA] Torn Fu. restoration

[Tim]

Ha!  Well, maybe.  During WWII German armored units in North Africa were
reportedly being heard by hams in the US at times.  Presumably Lo VHF AM...
I don't doubt it..
Tim
N6CC

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 2:02 PM Mkdorney <mkdorney at aol.com> wrote:

> I’m about 3000 miles away from California, so I don’t thing the Torn Fu.d2
> has quite the range to reach.
>
> Mark D.
> WW2RDO
>
>
> “In matters of style, float with the current. In matters of Principle,
> stand like a rock. “.   -   Thomas Jefferson
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 29, 2020, at 1:44 PM, Tim <timsamm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi Ray - Out here in Cali the CHP primary is still all over the 42 mc
> segment in cars & repeaters, regional parks are in 44 mc, local fire backup
> is in 46 mc.  "In-N-Out" hamburgers used 33.4 for the order-taker out in
> the parking lot to the cashier...(was interesting to hear what some people
> ordered!)
>
> My reserve unit was assigned 30.60 and a bunch of others for training and
> our local Coastal River Division/Special Boat Unit had many long standing
> assignments in the 30-50 mc band, all FM of course.  Those assignments were
> made by the Navy frequency coordinator at Pt. Mugu... 40.5 is the long
> standing military emergency/SAR freq.  (Third harmonic is 121.5.....)
> Recall that the FCC has no jurisdiction over US military communications -
> that's the realm of the NTIA.  But I would assume they are coordinated at
> some level up the food chain in the US..
>
> I'm kind of more interested in getting hold of a bunch of HF freqs that
> were formerly used by SW broadcasting - now mostly vacated...Like that will
> ever happen!  hihi.
>
> Tim
> N6CC
>
> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 7:37 PM Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Low band Land Mobile Radio Service and Low band Public Service but they
>> are all FM cover that range. Fire Departments and organizations that had
>> been around from the beginning of time like State Police were once on Low
>> Band but they have all vacated those frequencies decades ago. Some Fire
>> Departments had so many pocket pagers and Plektron receivers that they were
>> maybe the last to use it.
>> I thought that a TBY transceiver may be just the radio to net with that
>> set being it covers the same bad, is AM  and super wide band.
>> Think about it for a second, the Torn FU.d2 was designed around the same
>> time as the TBY and that's a far superior radio, at least looks like it to
>> me but never played around with one myself.
>>
>> Ray F/KA3EKH
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