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Re: [CQ-Contest] [YCCC] 1942 aircraft radio question

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] [YCCC] 1942 aircraft radio question
From: "w1eqo@shaysnet.com" <w1eqo@shaysnet.com>
Reply-to: w1eqo@shaysnet.com
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:44:52 -0400
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Go find an old WWII C47, or many other aircraft of that time. Often there
is a DF loop over the cockpit area. It looks about a foot across, but my
memory is getting rusty. One adjusts the threshold up (less sensitivity)
for strong stations so there is a good null on the loop.

Jim, W1EQO

PS Someone mentioned radio surplus in the Boston area. Could have that been
Eli's? in Cambridge? Was a great place. W1WJR got a 75A3 for $30 there once.



Original Message:
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From: K1TTT K1TTT@ARRL.NET
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:24:03 +0000
To: yccc@yccc.org, CQ-Contest@Contesting.COM, antennas@qth.net,
towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [YCCC] 1942 aircraft radio question



Yes, one of my guesses was 'Threshold Sensitivity'... but to me that sounds
redundant.  You set a threshold or you set a sensitivity, a threshold
sensitivity doesn't seem right to me, but then again this was 60+ years ago,
maybe the concepts were a bit different.  I am kind of hoping for a bit
better identification of what it might be off of.

David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: K1TTT [mailto:K1TTT@ARRL.NET]
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 21:10
> To: YCCC (yccc@yccc.org); reflector cq-contest; antennas@qth.net;
> reflector -tower
> Subject: 1942 aircraft radio question
> 
> Got this from a local kid who has visited here... anyone have an idea of
> what it is off of?
> 
> <quote>
> I have a question for you.  While walking around the site of the 1942
> plane crash near Garnet Peak on the south end of town, someone picked up
> an oval shaped tag, put it in some solvent, and found that it read
> "THRES SENS" on one side and "LOOP GAIN" on the other.  I would assume
> this would be off some part of the plane's radio.  Do you have any idea
> what "THRES SENS" means or can you confirm it could be off the radio?
> <quote>
> 
> from the web page: http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/1942_1.html
> I can give you the usaaf serial numbers:
> 
> 42-6455/6504          Douglas C-53-DO
>                               c/n 4907/4956
>       6463 (c/n 4915) crashed Oct 10, 1942 east of Garnet Peak, Peru, MA.
> 
> And it was big news at the time:
> http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00D11F63A58167B93C5A81783
> D85F468485F9
> 
> 
> David Robbins K1TTT
> e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
> web: http://www.k1ttt.net
> AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
> 



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