Are you ever dating yourself :>) Did the Brits ever get those early National military receivers to use, or did only the Yanks have them?
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > ______________________________________________________________ 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
