View Full Version : STRATEGIC SERVICE TRANSMITTER-RECEIVER NUMBER I (SSTR-1)
BMT (RIP)
07-05-2011, 13:30
http://www.archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.40119
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Cool..Seen something like that a few years ago in Tenn.
You have one? :munchin
AL
BMT (RIP)
07-05-2011, 18:53
I was never a Dit Dah!!!
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I was never a Dit Dah!!!
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Brings back a lot of memories..
My dad had his Extra license when I was young. I sat for the General as a BSA badge at 12yo,, theory was ok,, but could not get code to speed.
He had several radios with crystals, including some early "Walky-Talky" hand helds we used for hunting. Eventually going to Icom synthesized. His house looked like a spiders nest. Dam antenni hanging off, growing out of, wired to,, every window, tree, & pole.
I tried to get him into MARS,, but he was happy to QSL the world without doing anything formal..
Thanks,, :D
mark46th
07-07-2011, 16:42
Tubes!!!
Badger52
07-11-2011, 11:35
Tubes!!!Just for you sir. (http://www.history.army.mil/photos/WWII/ErlyYrs/SC180791.jpg)
New Guinea, 1943.
(Note alternative to FM when things are quiet; just a family magazine back then, pre Helen Gurley Brown, or it'd never have made it past the censors.)
Enjoy.
mark46th
07-12-2011, 18:04
Holy cow. I hope they didn't air drop that equipment...
Interesting stuffe - I don't recognize the transmitter, but I had a BC-312 receiver like the one shown when I was starting out as a ham back in the mid 60s. They were designed as an airborne radio (installed in airplanes, not jumped out of them). They apparently were so much better than the ground receivers of the time, they ended up serving there, too.
The SSTR1 looks like a predecessor to the GRC-109.
Hartley