Well, this has strayed way off the original post, and I do intend to
find the book and read it, but ... speaking from a little battle experience:
Fred (FL) wrote:
In a battle war situation - the last thing a
operator military person needs to have to do,
is dial in an exact frequency.
In a message dated 6/12/07 11:47:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can you believe, Andy Rooney of CBS 60 minutes was a reporter for Stars
and Stripes newspaper in WW2?
Not hard to believe at all:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/rooney.asp
Be sure to
In the early 90's, while employed as an engineer
for Uncle Sam, we had a contract with NA Rockwell,
in Newport Beach, Calif. - for computer chips.
Next door on their grounds, was an old Collins
Radio facility. And they still left the old
Collins tower and beam, outside on the Rockwell
plant's
or official sounding voice garnered many listeners before the days of
television.
73,
Sandy W5TVW
- Original Message -
From: Fred Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Crystal Clear book
Stuart
I just finished reading a book, CRYSTAL CLEAR, by Richard J. Thompson Jr. The
book presents the fascinating history of the World-War-II effort to provide
crystal frequency control for military radios. This was critically important,
because radios without crystal control drifted badly, which
In a message dated 6/12/07 6:34:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
because radios without crystal control drifted badly, which made net
operation
difficult and also made it impossible to assign closely-spaced radio
channels.
I don't think that was the reason for
In a battle war situation - the last thing a
operator military person needs to have to do,
is dial in an exact frequency. I suspect this
was one reason for crystal control. Also in
secure comms nets - periodic crystal changes,
would make code book syncing net frequency very
practical and
Hi Fred,
Yes, I remember Gabriel Heater news; but the all the ships at sea was the
tag line of gossip commentator Walter Winchell. Remember him? He also had
the snappy code burst at the start of his broadcasts.
Can you believe, Andy Rooney of CBS 60 minutes was a reporter for Stars
and
Stuart Rohre wrote:
Hi Fred,
Yes, I remember Gabriel Heater news; but the all the ships at sea was
the tag line of gossip commentator Walter Winchell. Remember him? He
also had the snappy code burst at the start of his broadcasts.
Can you believe, Andy Rooney of CBS 60 minutes was a
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:29:50 -0700 (PDT), Fred (FL) wrote:
Does anyone remember Gabriel Heater? When I
was a kid, out at my grandparents cottage south
of Buffalo - everyone used to sit around the
Philco radio - and listen to Gabriel Heater's
news program, at that time about WWII.
. and all
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