I spent many hours under the hot African sun in Natal South Africa during the 1940s using the "19", which was the beast which those of us in the signals group of my school's cadet corp had to use. The "19s" which we had included the VHF "B", and during one exercise a school friend and I discovered that we could maintain contact using the VHF "B" over distances of a couple of miles or more,depending upon the terrain. I suspect that this "discovery" might have caused some concern, because the "B" was designed for secure comms between tanks no more than 800 yards apart - according to our Instructor. Anyway my friend and I were asked a lot of questions :-)
73, Geoff LX2AO On June 26, 2012 at 7:57 PM, ERIC MANNING wrote: > Does anyone else remember or have a Wireless Set Nr. 19? > > Built during WW2 for the Canadian Army Armoured Corps and our Soviet > Allies [it had Russian and English markings], > it was a transceiver, weighed a lot, and I cut my teeth on one. Covered > ALL ham bands [between 2 and 8 Mc/s]. > Most repairs could be made by dropping it on a hard surface. > > [Other than that, I don't have a good thing to say about the old beast. > It reached truly new lows in performance, even for the 1940s.] > > Eric > VA7DZ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
