[AMRadio] FW: [QCWA] Fw: Now That's A Transmitter - Featuring the RCA TE-147]
Hay Guys and Gals...This is a serious transmitter. Go take a look at the pixs and story... Bob W1PE Subject: Now That's A Transmitter - Featuring the RCA TE-147 Be sure and check out the photos on the web site. The second photo shows the transmitter. Note the three steering wheels in the center. The fifth picture shows the back of the same panel. Interesting chain drive. Hello Everyone, The RCN transmitting site at Newport Corner, N.S. has been on the air continuously since May 1943. Set up under a veil of secrecy during the height of the North Atlantic U-boat threat, this backwoods village became the home of an invaluable weapon during the Battle of the Atlantic. Despite a price tag of more than $6 million, an exorbitant expense in those days, it was estimated that the facility paid for itself in three months in the amount of Allied shipping that was saved on the North Atlantic. Its signal could be heard and read from Murmansk to the Falklands and half way around the world. Its technology was considered state-of-the-art at the time capable of emitting up to 80,000 watts of power from each of its 20 transmitters and associated antenna. In 1944, more than one million code groups were transmitted from the site each month. There must have been nearly a thousand ships copying the signals from this station at any given time during the war. The three towers of its main transmitter were 560 feet high and two other towers were 320 feet high. The electrical requirements were staggering. There were oil-immersed switches that stood eighteen feet high. The main aerial had insulators, nine feet long and eighteen inches in diameter, each tested to withstand a strain of 90,000 pounds and 350,000 volts. One of the transmitters installed at Newport Corner was the low frequency RCA type TE-147. It is featured in this newly developed web document : http://jproc.ca/rrp/te147.html -- __ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] dayton
On 5/20/07, Geoff/W5OMR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those who've not been to Dayton, but -have- been to Belton, imagine a 'good' Belton, outside, x100. Imagine the whole of the Bell County Expo Center parking lot filled with vendors, and you've got the outside area of Dayton. The inside was commercial stuff, and therefore not too interesting to me. Sorry I missed you Geoff, I *did* keep my eyes peeled above average crowd height in hopes of finding you. Missed a number of other folks as well, but did manage to meet a few who henceforth were only known via on air or online. Forgot to bring a camera with me but 'VJB took plenty of pics and has some posted over on amfone.net under QSO. I got home after midnight, so I still have to put down my thoughts and sightings at some point soon. The best deal of the event for three of us (now known as the Eimac Boys) was finding a guy with a huge case of NOS 4-400As and chimneys. WA2PJP, W2XR and myself ended up with a dozen or more, leaving maybe 4-6 in the box. Bulk buying power got a price reduction from $100 ea to $75 ea. Date codes from 88/89. It was all in the timing. Most amazing find for me was the matching/correct RF ammeter for my 300G, verified by 'VJB. Paid a whopping $4, sure was pleased to find it. Opted not to buy the beat up SX-88 with custom wood escutcheon for $5500. *snort* Sure was a lot of stuff there, plenty of people too. ~ Todd, KA1KAQ __ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] dayton
Hi Todd, That woman with the SX-88 was there 2 years ago. All her stuff was way overpriced. Whoever was advising her as to value was way out in left field somewhere. Many prices exceeded auction site prices by a good bit and much of the gear was filthy. I didn't even make any offers on the stuff. A similar thing happened with a local estate of a noted local collector several years ago. The only exception being that the gear in this case was mostly pristine and much had been restored. The XYL had been advised as to prices by well meaning friends. These too, were on the high side, and then she added coded prices to the tags to see if she could realize even more. The result was that she carted the stuff around to local hamfests for several years before it was all gone. I can't fault folks for trying to get the most they can for an item, but in these cases, the prices asked were way out of line. You can either sell it at a reasonable price and get rid of it fast ot haul it all over the country for years and still have lots left over. In the Dayton case, I shudder to think what she had to pay for truck rental and gas to haul all that junk from Virginia Beach and she hauled most of it back again. Nice meeting you at Dayton. 73, John, W4AWM ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. __ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
[AMRadio] 10 Meters
10 seems active right now. I can hear the beacon KC9GNY very strong and there are numerous other stations on SSB. 73 Jim/W5JO __ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] 10 Meters
Unfortunately I can't hear anything in NJ at this time. 73, W2DTC __ Ken Barber Middletown, NJ Radio Website: http://w2dtc.com Paddy Ken Webpages: http://kenw2dtc.home.comcast.net ___ - Original Message - From: Jim Wilhite [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Boatanchors Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED]; AM Radio Discussion List amradio@mailman.qth.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 3:33 PM Subject: [AMRadio] 10 Meters 10 seems active right now. I can hear the beacon KC9GNY very strong and there are numerous other stations on SSB. 73 Jim/W5JO __ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] 10 Meters
Listen on 29.0 in the next 5 minutes. Jim/W5JO Subject: Re: [AMRadio] 10 Meters Unfortunately I can't hear anything in NJ at this time. 73, W2DTC __ Ken Barber Middletown, NJ Radio Website: http://w2dtc.com Paddy Ken Webpages: http://kenw2dtc.home.comcast.net ___ - Original Message - From: Jim Wilhite [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Boatanchors Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED]; AM Radio Discussion List amradio@mailman.qth.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 3:33 PM Subject: [AMRadio] 10 Meters 10 seems active right now. I can hear the beacon KC9GNY very strong and there are numerous other stations on SSB. 73 Jim/W5JO __ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] dayton
Well, I did get some pictures. But, I need to go see Brett/N2DTS before long. At least, I owe him a phone call, since I'm -only- about 4 miles from his house :-) I saw some great gear. I saw a Ranger for $1500, which, *I* thought, wasn't that great, but it had the look of a W3HM restoration job. I did see a truck there, with comm gear running in the back. Was probably you guys, and that wasn't a bad location. I also found (once) the Antique Wireless guys, and saw a box of 450TH/L's and other strange looking tubes. Wanted to go back and find it again, but never did find that place, again. I was -almost- tempted to pick up the Viking II CDC transmitter that was there. On Saturday, the price was down from$300 to $100. If it hadn't sold by Sunday morning, I would have been more than tempted. As it was, I had a more pressing item in which I -had- to spend money on. That also curtailed my finding a hotel Friday evening, as in order to protect what I had, I had to sleep in the car, which I did... from 4 to 5:30am, Friday. (*yawn*) See, on the way to Dayton, from Northern MO, an 18-wheeler truck and I passed each other going the opposite way on a 2-lane hiway (36). The resulting mini-tornado (the only thing it could have been) whipped the tri-magnet mag-mount w/75m ham-stick antenna on it, OFF of the top of my Honda CRX, and when the force of the air, going around 65mph blew it backward, when it hit the end of the coax, it came straight down. *WHAMP!* *CRASH!* *BOOM!* TINKLE, Tinkle, tinkle... I'm ducking, looking for something to cover with, because I thought I'd been shot. Knocked the back glass smooth out! Glass shards were found up on the dash, even! No blood on me, after I stopped and took inventory... I got lucky. Interestingly enough, it did -not- budge the dual-band V/UHF mag-mounted antenna. Go figure. Do you guys know how hard it is to find a back hatch glass for a 91 CRX? It wasn't until I got to New Jersey before I found one, and had it installed, and I *garuntee* you it wasn't for the $900+ quote I got from a glass place in Indianapolis. *snort!* Now, off to Home Depot to get my $61+tax back for a 33x48 sheet of Lexan! -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR (/m2 New Jersey) (never a dull moment in my life. I used to think I was a victim of circumstances... now I realize, I'm a product of my society! ;-) __ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
[AMRadio] 10 Meters? Try 20
It was Friday or Saturday early afternoon when I was listening to the Special Event Station from Indianapolis Raceway on 20 meters real strong S9+, Q5, or whatever that a booming Station from Sweden checked in with close to a 10 over signal. No fading at all. Most of the other stations checking in were considerably weaker with a few exceptions. Indianapolis was strong and clear for well over an hour and about the only AM on 20. Bill, KB3DKS/1 __ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
[AMRadio] Sort of back on the air.
Hello, Well, those in the Northeast might just hear my P.W. rice box on 75 occasionally now. Have been working on an old Yaesu FT101 (late ver.) not E and been using the 80-90 ft. or so wire I strung up on the flat roof over my workshop originally just for receiving. I seems to load up OK but is really not a transmitting antenna by any means. It's a horizontal inverted J almost a U end fed made of old rubber jacket 12ga. copper. 60 foot X about 18 and a 6 ft clothes pole holding one side up in the middle. Talk about JS'ed. Anyway, am going to add some wire and make it a loop to see what happens then. Have serious noise problems from being downtown. If I can actually couple the PW 25W of AM to the wire just maybe, if conditions are right and things are quiet you might hear me. Bill, KB3DKS/1 __ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
RE: [AMRadio] dayton
Geoff stopped by, and got on 80 meters with the big rig. A good time was had by all! Brett N2DTS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff/W5OMR Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 6:20 PM To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service Subject: Re: [AMRadio] dayton Well, I did get some pictures. But, I need to go see Brett/N2DTS before long. At least, I owe him a phone call, since I'm -only- about 4 miles from his house :-) I saw some great gear. I saw a Ranger for $1500, which, *I* thought, wasn't that great, but it had the look of a W3HM restoration job. I did see a truck there, with comm gear running in the back. Was probably you guys, and that wasn't a bad location. I also found (once) the Antique Wireless guys, and saw a box of 450TH/L's and other strange looking tubes. Wanted to go back and find it again, but never did find that place, again. I was -almost- tempted to pick up the Viking II CDC transmitter that was there. On Saturday, the price was down from$300 to $100. If it hadn't sold by Sunday morning, I would have been more than tempted. As it was, I had a more pressing item in which I -had- to spend money on. That also curtailed my finding a hotel Friday evening, as in order to protect what I had, I had to sleep in the car, which I did... from 4 to 5:30am, Friday. (*yawn*) See, on the way to Dayton, from Northern MO, an 18-wheeler truck and I passed each other going the opposite way on a 2-lane hiway (36). The resulting mini-tornado (the only thing it could have been) whipped the tri-magnet mag-mount w/75m ham-stick antenna on it, OFF of the top of my Honda CRX, and when the force of the air, going around 65mph blew it backward, when it hit the end of the coax, it came straight down. *WHAMP!* *CRASH!* *BOOM!* TINKLE, Tinkle, tinkle... I'm ducking, looking for something to cover with, because I thought I'd been shot. Knocked the back glass smooth out! Glass shards were found up on the dash, even! No blood on me, after I stopped and took inventory... I got lucky. Interestingly enough, it did -not- budge the dual-band V/UHF mag-mounted antenna. Go figure. Do you guys know how hard it is to find a back hatch glass for a 91 CRX? It wasn't until I got to New Jersey before I found one, and had it installed, and I *garuntee* you it wasn't for the $900+ quote I got from a glass place in Indianapolis. *snort!* Now, off to Home Depot to get my $61+tax back for a 33x48 sheet of Lexan! -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR (/m2 New Jersey) (never a dull moment in my life. I used to think I was a victim of circumstances... now I realize, I'm a product of my society! ;-) __ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] dayton
On 5/21/07, Brett gazdzinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geoff stopped by, and got on 80 meters with the big rig. A good time was had by all! Glad to hear it. 73 Brian / wa5am __ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
