I know this isn't exactly on-target but I think my "audience" will love it as much as I did. I just need to hear back from each to forward the original document I found in .PDF format IF YOU WANT IT sent to you off-list as I don't think I can upload documents here (right?) and I see lots of ham call signs here so I think this will be worth a read to at least you guys plus it does have a smidgen to do with radiation/ radioactivity and I see lots of that radio-active stuff here too..read on:
Short history: Operation Redwing was commissioned from May - June 1956 at Bikini Atoll, Eniwetok & others where Sandia Base in NM wanted to know the effects of gamma radiation, the "mushroom cloud" radiation density and how it "drifted around" & other cool stuff like that. They stationed the USS Knudson ship there while 40 ASP rockets were fired through the cloud. This is where I come in. Aboard the Knudson (and the other support ships) were 6 of the only known Raymond Rosen Engineering 215 to 234 MC Model 842C FM receivers built just for the special job to listen to the rocket instrument telemetering package aboard as it traversed the radioactive cloud. Why I am in this loop is this: I was called by a ham friend to "come & clean the garage" of a SK (Silent Key for you non-hams) and inside was one of those 6 receivers; I had no clue what this unusual radio was and it took days of diligent searching to learn about it. This document has the only known line of print anyone can locate for me that proves the radios were aboard the ships and I have one of them in my museum now..still hunting for more info on the slim chance ANY of you know someone who knows someone "that was there". I discovered the Knudson was decommissioned & later sold for scrap some time ago and that was apparently when the ham bought the radio from a salvage company. He also got one of the rare ART-13 Collins radios (think Enola Gay here..) which I am donating to the B-29 "keep them flying" group & Collins Collector Association. I did find that the shipmates aboard the Knudson have a reunion group and I am communicating with them to see if anymore can be gleaned from it AND to locate an "appropriate final home" for the Rosen Receiver as I am pretty confident that this is the last of the breed. Want to know more? Look up USNRDL as a military acronym and that has a trail I am following as well as a link to SCALEROC where a Mr. R. Morrow in a Yahoo Groups conversation talks about Cooper Group Development who made the APS rocket motors; I am going to try and see if I can locate him as their rockets carried the "transmitter" and I have the receiver if there is any hope of reuniting the two in some way. Any help here is appreciated so call or email me if you want a copy of what I found or add to the fragments like this: http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/scaleroc/conversations/topics/3567 Robert L. "Bob" Burchett WB6SLC 22826 Mariposa Ave. Torrance CA 90502 Direct line: 310.534.4456 Website: www.EEonTheWeb.com QCWA ARRL _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
