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On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Richard Knoppow wrote:
"Jon Teske" wrote in message ... You can see command sets in several WW II movies. I recently saw 12'o Clock High and there is a brief scene where they are shown in a rack. Of course the movie was made in 1948/9 when there were still a lot of flying B-17s as orignally equipped. After the war, a lot of those got converted for ham use. How do you convert a B-17 for ham use? You make sure the equipment works on the ham bands, and if not, put in ham equipment, making sure there is a suitable power supply to run off the presumably 400Hz AC already in the aircraft. You'd also need a pilot's license, and given the size of the thing, and wanting to operate the radios, likely you need someone willing to be the pilot while you play with the radios. It might make a good club project. There used to be articles about various ham clubs converting trailers and even milk vans into stations for remote operating, field day and public service and even emergencies. That way you get the labor to do the restoration, and share the costs, and get enough "staff" to keep the plane going and in the air. I can't picture a B-17. Was it a common one, or one that was so large that they never made many? I can imagine if it was a common plane, that after the war many did land in private hands, and given how cheap surplus was, maybe even a ham did have one at one point. Michael VE2BVW |
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"Michael Black" wrote in message I can't picture a B-17. Was it a common one, or one that was so large that they never made many? I can imagine if it was a common plane, that after the war many did land in private hands, and given how cheap surplus was, maybe even a ham did have one at one point. Michael VE2BVW The B-17 Flying Fortress was one of the most successful bombers of WWII. Almost 13,000 were built. -- Regards B.H. Hill Amplification http://hillamplification.com Brian's Radio Universe http://webpages.charter.net/brianhill/500.htm |
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"Brian Hill" wrote in :
I just watched a movie called "Across the Pacific" (1942) with Humphrey Bogart and at the end of the movie there was a hallicrafters SX-11 or 12 in the scene where they are at the plantation. A lot of old Bogart movies have cool radios in them. I've also seen a SX-42 in "Sabrina" and a Hallicrafters marine radio phone in "Key Largo" . In "Return To Mayberry" there is an S-38 beside Barney's desk. |
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Michael Black wrote:
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Richard Knoppow wrote: "Jon Teske" wrote in message ... You can see command sets in several WW II movies. I recently saw 12'o Clock High and there is a brief scene where they are shown in a rack. Of course the movie was made in 1948/9 when there were still a lot of flying B-17s as orignally equipped. After the war, a lot of those got converted for ham use. How do you convert a B-17 for ham use? You make sure the equipment works on the ham bands, and if not, put in ham equipment, making sure there is a suitable power supply to run off the presumably 400Hz AC already in the aircraft. You'd also need a pilot's license, and given the size of the thing, and wanting to operate the radios, likely you need someone willing to be the pilot while you play with the radios. It might make a good club project. There used to be articles about various ham clubs converting trailers and even milk vans into stations for remote operating, field day and public service and even emergencies. That way you get the labor to do the restoration, and share the costs, and get enough "staff" to keep the plane going and in the air. I can't picture a B-17. Was it a common one, or one that was so large that they never made many? I can imagine if it was a common plane, that after the war many did land in private hands, and given how cheap surplus was, maybe even a ham did have one at one point. Michael VE2BVW Michael; No, it wasn't to common. They only made 10 or 15 thousand of the things before they became obsolete and were scrapped. Seriously, the B-17 was known as the Flying Fortress and was used extensively by the 8th US Air Force during WW II. Other theaters of operation also saw the B-17 but to a lesser extent. As for a Ham having a B-17 I guess that Gen. Curtis Lemay of the Strategic Air Command qualifies. He used his personal SSB transceiver as a proof of concept radio to demonstrate that world wide communications could be achieved using SSB. He operated all the way across the Atlantic Ocean from North America to England with out loss of communications with Offet AFB using SSB. Using AM radio this was impossible under normal operating conditions. The USAF still uses SSB for it's long distance comms, at least when it is not using satellite comms. Dave WD9BDZ |
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"Michael Black" wrote in message ample.net... On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Richard Knoppow wrote: "Jon Teske" wrote in message ... You can see command sets in several WW II movies. I recently saw 12'o Clock High and there is a brief scene where they are shown in a rack. Of course the movie was made in 1948/9 when there were still a lot of flying B-17s as orignally equipped. After the war, a lot of those got converted for ham use. How do you convert a B-17 for ham use? You make sure the equipment works on the ham bands, and if not, put in ham equipment, making sure there is a suitable power supply to run off the presumably 400Hz AC already in the aircraft. You'd also need a pilot's license, and given the size of the thing, and wanting to operate the radios, likely you need someone willing to be the pilot while you play with the radios. It might make a good club project. There used to be articles about various ham clubs converting trailers and even milk vans into stations for remote operating, field day and public service and even emergencies. That way you get the labor to do the restoration, and share the costs, and get enough "staff" to keep the plane going and in the air. I can't picture a B-17. Was it a common one, or one that was so large that they never made many? I can imagine if it was a common plane, that after the war many did land in private hands, and given how cheap surplus was, maybe even a ham did have one at one point. Michael VE2BVW Sic transit gloria mundi! The B-17 "Flying Fortress" was a very famous aircraft, a heavy bomber used extensively by the USAAF in the European theater. It, and the B-24 "Liberator" were the backbone of the air command operations. There are examples of both in flying condition still in existence. Worth looking at if they come to visit. No creature comforts whatever and air crews often spent most of their time in them. Both aircraft were built in very large numbers and had reputations for being extremely rugged. Original radio equipment was minimal and much of it still exists and some is in use (on the ground) by amateurs. Most WW-2 aircraft were unceremoniously scrapped after the war. It is now difficult to find examples of airplanes built in quantities of many thousands. -- -- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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In article , elaich wrote:
In "Return To Mayberry" there is an S-38 beside Barney's desk. "The Andy Griffith Show" - in Sheriff Andy Taylor's office is an Eico 720, a CW-only, XTAL-controlled transmitter, with a mike plugged into its key jack. Don't recall if it made it into "Return to Mayberry." -- Chuck WV8A Detroit MI |
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Chuck Reti wrote:
"The Andy Griffith Show" - in Sheriff Andy Taylor's office is an Eico 720, a CW-only, XTAL-controlled transmitter, with a mike plugged into its key jack. Don't recall if it made it into "Return to Mayberry." In the sherrif's office in Eureka (sci-fi channel), there is some sort of old radio. I never see it well enough to even guess what it is, but someone who knows what it is might recognize it. Over the three seasons, the microphone changed, I think early in the first season, it went from a hand mike to a desktop. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM |
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In "Some Like It Hot" with Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Marilyn Monroe, the
character Osgood is shown making a ship-to-shore call from his yacht to the hotel using a Hallicrafters S-20R. http://antiqueradio.org/art/halli1023.jpg Ridiculous, of course, since the S-20R is a receiver, not a transceiver. His telephone handset is plugged into the headphone jack. I have also noticed the SX-42 in "Sabrina." Phil Nelson Phil's Old Radios http://antiqueradio.org/index.html |
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Ridiculous, of course
P.S. Also ridiculous because the S-20R wasn't introduced until 10 years after 1929, when the movie is set. Phil |
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In message , Phil Nelson
writes Ridiculous, of course P.S. Also ridiculous because the S-20R wasn't introduced until 10 years after 1929, when the movie is set. Phil Talk of ridiculous, there is an old movie that has a German WW2 U boat with a British Admiralty B40 RX on board. http://www.armyradio.co.uk/arsc/cust...tid=1540&cat=7 2&page=2 http://tinyurl.com/5fl9xr Apart from being British it was also a 1950s radio! -- Bill |
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