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Howdy Steve! Have you been able to set up your WSPR rig in the islands yet??? Mr. T., back in Wisconsin

Since the RFI is caused by arcing through the insulator/arrestor I wonder if a sensitive IR camera could spot a bad insulator/arrestor.

I'm not sure folks are so much more sophisticated today. They are still taken in by a slick sales pitch and will let themselves be led to believe things as that contrary to obvious fact.

Outstanding presentation. Thx.

When I was a young ham 60 years ago, I knew an older ham who said that when he was about 15 years old during WWII, he had been listening on his receiver, heard a CQ, and replied, all illegally. At the end of the QSO, law enforcement was at his door. Presumably, he used his own call sign, so that is not as remarkable as the RDF shown in this video. My friend said that he was offered and accepted a plea bargain, spending his time from age 16 to VJ day as radio operator on a USN submarine. That made him somewhat different mentally and emotionally, as we all could easily see. On the other side of the ledger, there were German spies operating a transmitter with its antenna in a barn in Pennsylvania during WWII for whom the US authorities searched long and fruitlessly, and German POW's in Texas managed to do something similar while confined.

We should have used more healing crystals in wars

I used to hear WWVH in Newfoundland and in Alberta. I tried to visit the station in Kauai but that was soon after 9/11 so a visit wasn't going to happen. It is a lovely island, and since I don't like the crowds of the usual tourist spots it suited me just fine. Your discriptions bring back fond memories.

I lived on Maui for 4 years and drove by the old WWVH site a couple times a week. It's now a beach park I think.

I love NIST and it's cesium beam clock..

@donnahalper9110 Fascinating, fun to know stuff. Thanks Donna! I learned a lot from you, as always! 🥰

Most of the work was manual and mechanical. OSHA was not yet born I didn't see any African American people. I really liked this documentary

Oh! It is a very time-consuming technology. 73 ! Thanks for downloading this.

29:09 Huh? Solvent for quartz known as frequency etch?? I think there are shenanigans here..

Ive wondered a long time about this.

Fascinating. And that was way before watches had quartz oscillators.

My first two radios were an R-390 and an SP-600. I was 12 years old. Not rich, just lucky. These were a generation and a half beyond the radios available in the late 30's. I can really appreciate these gentlemen's examination and radio forensics. KC1CCG

Love seeing how things are made, hate seeing 40s work safety standards xD

Very Interesting, held my attention and provided a lot of good info about ssb... Scientific Radio made a 100 watt three knob crystal controlled ssb radio, operating frequency was switch selected, (big knob in the middle), volume and power out. We at Operation Deep Freeze bought these radios to replace the KWM-2, because of the difficulty of the non-tech scientists to "peak the grid" and "dip the plate" into the dipole antennas, resulting in the constant replacing of the 6146Ws. The SR radios worked pretty well, and were easy for them to deploy and they made their skeds more regular... Thanks for the great look back into ssb history...

That is one heck of a production process!

WOW - what an education. THANK YOU. - In my apprenticeship I had to save for my first crystal. Now I know why. - An AWA trainee from Ashfield 1970

The RBIS’s building on K Street still stands, although the buildings on either side have been replaced. It would be great if one could get permission to crawl the building, looking for any signs of the RBIS occupancy. Did the Alcock huts have any form of heating, or did the operators just freeze in the winter?

As I was watching I was wondering if I could swing by for a visit... But I was discouraged when the armed guards were mentioned!

Once trained on a Siemens T100 teleprinter and if my memory is correct operation of the Bell was ‘shift J’. Can also remember why ryryryryryr was a suitable test message, it was due to the bit reversal in ‘r’ and ‘y’ that put the most strain on the electro-mechanical aspects of the machine. Thank you for sharing this, teleprinter/telex operators came up with quite a few ‘interesting’ messages in the spare time including some graphics.

1:10 Quarz has been used for more than decoration for a long time. For example powdered quarz has been used as a flux in metallurgy for centuries.

🟦…(@26:03):> I Got triggered when the guy took the lapping-plate off in the reverse direction that it had been grinding!

I remember listening to jean Shepard commenting about a new service starting the next day on WOR’s fm outlet. Clearly the end was near. It became obvious that no one would care too much for better sounding AM when FM service was gaining dominance in the market. 😢

Excellent fingernails too!

Bravo, Herb. Quite a lesson. Well done.

Simply amazing !

0:02 Haven’t heard that sound in a very long… time.

Very enjoyable video! Thanks! As someone who teaches aerial navigation I can add a few thoughts. Target fixation is a dangerous thing. Every pilot needs to very aware of it and you have to force yourself to abort if conditions aren’t perfect. Very hard to do, especially when the stakes are high, like when the whole world is following you. Good contingency planning is a must on any flight, especially on difficult flights. Noonan was an expert navigator and likely put the aircraft in the proximity. A small island in a very big sea is however very hard to find under the best of circumstances. Shifting winds and speed will likely put you slightly off target no matter how good you are. You need a backup navigation aid to get you spot on target. The fact that they bungled the communication plan, left the long antenna behind, had a fail direction finding test and didn’t fix it, no CW ability (which was the standard at the time) and didn’t make a radio check after they left Lea, just stacks the odds against you. You have now put your life in the hands of dumb luck. Unfortunately I see this in aviation all too often. Successful pilots have in my opinion two characteristics in common. Great attention to detail and an acute awareness of their limitations. There is an old saying in the aviation world. A superior pilot uses his/her superior judgement to avoid having to use superior skills. Still very true to this day.

Treatment of the Insane Christianity & Human Rights Christian Prooftexts …a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding. Proverbs 10:13 According to Christians, lunatics were possessed by unclean spirits. To effect a cure it was therefore necessary to dislodge the offending spirit. This idea derived from gospel stories of exorcisms. And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out , Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, The Holy One of God. And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. Mark 1:23-25 Such beliefs had at least two unfortunate consequences. The first was that for many centuries no advance was made in understanding the nature of mental illness - although it is clear that Christians did understand the there was such a thing as insanity*. The second was that many thousands of men, women and children, already burdened with madness, were confined in chains and subjected to routine torture. The idea was that by making the environment sufficiently uncomfortable, the torturers might induce the possessing spirit to leave its human host. Saint Benedict beats a possessed monk, driving out the demon who possessed him. Fresco by Spinello Aretino (detail), Basilica San Miniato al Monte, Florence, Italy In some monasteries, the monks whipped their insane charges regularly every day. Although the method was spectacularly unsuccessful, no one seems to have realised the fact for many centuries. Sometimes the insane were beaten out of the parish with quarterstaffs. Sometimes they were loaded onto ships and sent off to die or become a problem for someone else. This is the origin of the various popular tales about a "ship of fools". A ship of fools. Those abord will almost certainly die - through accident, murder, starvation or shipwreck. This was an ideal way to kill the insane without feeling guilty. Christians could excuse themselves with the belief that if the insane they had forced aboard died, it must have been will. For as long as the Church controlled the insane, they endured dreadful torments. They were imprisoned, chained to a wall (or if they were lucky to a bed), flogged, starved, insulted, tortured, immersed in iced water and otherwise brutalised. It also seems safe to assume that sexual abuse would have been commonplace in view of twentieth century disclosures about monasteries, seminaries, church schools, orphanages and state mental asylums. Throughout Christendom the insane were kept in insanitary conditions in mad-houses and exposed to public ridicule. The most famous place in England for such people was the hospital of St Mary of Bethlehem ("Bedlam"), where visitors were charged a fee to see the inmates, and were allowed to provoke them and laugh at them. A few inmates came to their senses, some died of old age, some died of neglect, starvation, exposure or torture, and many died of "putrid fever" or other infectious diseases that flourished in such conditions. The idea that demons caused insanity as well as physical illnesses was not restricted to the Catholic Church. Here is Martin Luther on the subject: My opinion of lunatics is, that all idiots and insane persons are possessed by devils, though on that account they will not be damned; but I think Satan tries men in different ways, some severely, some lightly, some for a long time, some for a short one. Physicians may attribute such things to natural causes, and sometimes cure them by medicene, but they are ignorant of the power of devils. (personal letter written by Martin Luther to Wenzel Link, dated July 14, 1528) Luther goes on to say that because Jesus healeed sick people with demons, he is "forced to believe that many are made dumb, deaf, and lame by Satan's malice," and he also supposes that demons can cause other kinds of sickness and even storms or blight. The word bedlam, meaning uproar and confusion, is derived from the name of the Bethlem Royal Hospital.. The hospital became a modern psychiatric facility, but historically it was representative of the worst excesses of asylums in the era of lunacy reform. The position of master of Bedlam was a sinecure largely regarded by its occupants as means of profiting at the expense of the poor in their charge. The 1598 visitation by the Bridewell Governors had observed that the hospital was "filthely kept". Up until the seventeeth century the Board of Governors referred to the inmates as either "the poore" or "prisoners". An inspection by the Governors in 1631 reported that the patients were "likely to starve". Inmates left in their cells with their own excreta were, on occasion, liable to throw "filth & Excrem[en]t" into the hospital yard or onto passing staff and visitors. Affluent Londoners could go to see the unfortunate inmates, to laugh at them, abuse them, or watch them being tortured. Outings to see them were so commonplace as not to need explanation. Samuel Pepys' diary for 19 February 1669 for example notes that "All the afternoon I at the Office, while the young people went to see Bedlam". Nepotistic appointment practices played a significant role in allocating posts. The election of James Monro as Bethlem physician in 1728 marked the beginning of an 125-year Monro family dynasty extending through four generations of fathers and sons. In 1758 William Battie, a former Governor at Bethlem, published his Treatise on Madness which castigated Bethlem as archaic and outmoded, uncaring of its patients and founded upon a despairing medical system whose therapeutic transactions were injudicious and unnecessarily violent. Bethlem was best known for the fact that it allowed admittance for a fee to casual visitors with no connection to the hospital's inmates. This display of madness as public show has often been considered the most scandalous feature of the historical Bedlam. "Swarms of People" descended upon Bethlem during public holidays. The Governors actively sought out "people of note and quallitie" as visitors, presumably because they were prepared to pay higher fees. The practice was never officially recognised (or accounted for), and probably grew out of the ancient monastic custom of giving alms to the poor. ▼ August (2) Treatment of the Insane defence.pk Rand report prescribed US provocations ... Simple theme. 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Remarkable. Thank you so much.

Very interesting

That was very nice. I am in Western NY and have been listing to WWV/WWVB/WWVH and CHU for many years. setting my clocks and radio dials . at night 2.5 MHZ WWVH comes in strong hear. very happy about HamSCI . love the 25 MHz WWV being back on. So happy a HAM WD8DAS Steve is the engineer of the station.

Thanks, Greg, for an informative and expanding explanation of how the pi cct is 'shaped' and how it does the magic of the impedance transforming action. The magic has been graphically revealed. Antenna Matching Unit boxes are so much less a mystery now! 73. de ZL3ABY Kevin.

Loved every second, sir. Thank you for this.

Outstanding material and presentation. It amazes me how the government throws money at one project and other seemingly important agencies barely scrape by. I’ve heard stories about taking surplus gear and rebuilding it to keep places like this up and running. I can imagine the amount of corrosion the station would have being that close to the ocean. Something always needs attention every week. Keeps you busy I guess. Thanks for posting the video.

this cauld b Monty python for the ridiculous stages in production

When America use to be great with American jobs what a huge change from today

This movie is a very rare find learn a lot 😊

so analog. love it!

this feels like a time travel to something occult

That was very interesting, I knew there was a fair amount of radio monitoring in WWII but I was not aware of this program. From the video is sounds like this was separate from monitoring Japanese and German military transmission. It was interesting the Navy did a transmitter location test. Early in the War German U-boats reeked havoc with US coastal shipping so I wonder if the FBIS were used to detect U-boats when they radioed home?

Love the new AWA intro to Steve's presentation. Also appreciate the prompt posting of this on TH-cam. Unfortunately the Wednesday 8PM Eastern time slot is used by at least another group with radio technology history themes. It is always a plus to attend a presentation live but comforting to know there are provisions for recorded backup.

Thank you. Even interresting for me in Europe.

Great background and history. Thank you. BTW, I also did a phone time check. Jon - N5WXZ

that poor lady doing the xray is probably long gone from cancer

Wonderful! I hear WWVH occasionally here in the midwestern U.S.A. Fun video. I've listened to "The Tick" since I was a boy and learned to tweak the oscillator in my Truetone transistor to pick up 2.5 MHZ. Don't believe I heard WWVH on that set!

CuriousMarc has a great explanation of how a Cesium clock works. th-cam.com/video/eOti3kKWX-c/w-d-xo.html Part 2 th-cam.com/video/xTy1kY_wtsY/w-d-xo.html