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VMARS DDAY80 net - as heard at 06.11 at Andrewsfield on the BC348
Next video of the VMARS DDAY80 net this time as received on the BC348 receiver.
Includes a call in for new stations joining the net and a tour of the station.
Includes a call in for new stations joining the net and a tour of the station.
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VMARS DDAY80 net - as heard at 06:02 at Andrewsfield on the Collins TCS receiver.
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My first recording of the VMARS DDAY 80 net on the 6th June 2024 at Andrewsfield. Signals were excellent and noise in low. The receiver on this video is the Collins TCS-12 fed from a inverted V dipole cut for the 80mtr band. VMARS nets are held on 3.615Mcs.
WW2 R109 Receiver - 6th June 2024 - DDAY80 nets - receiving the VMARS net on a 12 foot whip!
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A short video of the little R109 receiver from 1943 and as used by the Para's at Pegasus Bridge receiving Martin, G3YYH, net control Paul, M1PVC and Martin at TM80PB from Pegasus Bridge in Normandy. My aerial was a WW2 12 foot whip. 80 metre conditions were excellent around 7:00 a.m. at Andrewsfield, Essex.
DDAY 80 from GB2AAF, Andrewsfield Essex - VMARS 80metre AM net as received on the Collins TCS-12
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The Vintage Military Amateur Radio Society organised a Special Event Net on the 6th June 2024 to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of D-DAY, the Normandy Landing into Occupied France. I reactivated GB2AAF at Andrewsfield in Essex, a former 9th TAF USAAF airfield built in 1942. B26 Marauders operated from this field under the 322nd BG. Check out my QRZ page for GB2AAF for more details. The main V...
Marconi H2301 Receiver - a rebadged Eddystone 880/3 - one of the best valve receivers ever made -
มุมมอง 1.5K3 หลายเดือนก่อน
One of the best valve (tube) receivers ever made. Stability is excellent from cold as the set uses a massive PTO (Permeability Tuned Oscillator) like the Collins R390. There are 30 bands to select from. The operator sees 1Mhz over the entire scale. The set is badged Marconi but was actually made by Eddystone. Marconi owned Eddystone at this time.
RACAL RA-17 Receiver - one of the best all - tube communication receivers ever built.
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A short video of the classic RACAL RA-17 communications receiver widely used by militaries around the World. This is an all valve (tube) design with outstanding frequency stability thanks to the "Wadley Loop". Enjoy
US BC-348 Receiver from WW2 - having a listen on 40 metres in the evening - a superb performer!
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US Army Air Force BC-348 Receiver from WW2 - a superb performer. Using one of my 348s this evening. Video taken a monent ago. Simply superb receivers. This one has been recapped and has an internal PSU. I put a hum bucker circuit on the heaters to negate hum altogether for headphones use. I put some cathode bypassing on the final audio to massively improve the audio and converted the dimmer to ...
1) WW2 Collins TCS at RAF Andrews field received M1PVC on the Collins ART-13
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One more video of WW2 Collins gear in action at the US built WW2 airfield of Andrewsfield in Essex, UK. This is the full Collins TCS pairing of a 1942 TCS Transmitter (rare) with a 1945 TCS12 transmitter and was operated from the back of my 1942 Bedford MWD truck on the Airfield. The video recorded the the early morning VMARS net on Saturday, 19th August 2023. The station being heard is Paul, M...
2) WW2 Collins TCS at RAF Andrews field receives G3YJO on the Wireless Set 52
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Another video of WW2 Collins gear in action at the US built WW2 airfield of Andrewsfield in Essex, UK. It's the full Collins TCS pairing of a 1942 TCS Transmitter (rare) with a 1945 TCS12 transmitter. This was operated from the back of my 1942 Bedford MWD truck. The video was recorded on the early morning VMARS net on Saturday, 19th August 2023. The station being heard is Martin, G3YJO, based i...
WW2 BC348 receiver and Collins TCS transmitter in action at Andrewsfield for AOTA.
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I "activated" Andrewsfield in Essex, UK for Airfields on the Air (AOTA) weekend in April. As Andrewsfield was the first operational airfield built by the Americans in WW2 using American built WW2 radios for the vintage station was the obvious choice. This year (2023) is the 80th Anniversary of the opening of the airfield in 1943. The receiver was a very fine recently rebuilt example of the exce...
M0IDF - Vintage AM - WW2 New Zealand ZC1 Mk1 wireless set and Clansman 321 armoured mobile at the MO
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Here's a video of me having a chat from my display at the Military Odyssey 2018 Show in Kent using a New Zealand ZC1 Transceiver, designed and built in WW2, with a Clansman 321 mounted in a Ferret Armoured Car. The Ferret belongs to and was being driven by fellow VMARS member Gordon Bubb with 2 chums, Nick/M0KOT and Ed/G8YXR riding shotgun in the display arena a half mile or so away. Bearing in...
M0IDF 80M Portable AM on the Hallicrafter S20R Receiver and KW Vanguard Transmitter
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Just to prove it is possible to go portable with some vintage gear! I was operating at the site of the Nuclear Bunker at Kelvedon Hatch in Essex. It's an absolute treat when the noise floor is S1 - AM works beautifully. The receiver is the excellent Hallicrafters S20R made in 1941, restored by myself, and as used by the Voluntary Interceptors or so called VIs at the start of WW2 to listen to Ge...
Listening to US Hams on the WW2 R109 Receiver
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This video is the British R109 Receiver listening to the 80 metre band in the early morning. I was lucky enough to find some US Hams crossing the pond with a good enough signla to be heard on my small aerial. The R109 has been modified to improve the BFO performance on CW and SSB. In standard form this early version of the R109 is easily overloaded. Later versions modified the set to improve re...
Eddystone 730/4 Vintage Military Receiver receiving the VMARS Saturday morning net
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The second of 2 videos of the Eddystone 730/4 Vintage Military Receiver in action receiving the Saturday Morning net of the Vintage Military Amateur Radio Society. As of the 16th July 2020 this receiver is for sale on eBay
Eddystone 730/4 Military Receiver receiving the VMARS (Vintage Military Amateur Radio Society) net
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A short video of the Eddystone 730/4 receiver in action receiving the VMARS Saturday morning net - note I have a short vertical and a lot of noise at the QTH so signals need to strong to be resolved. Many of the VMARS stations run QRP on vintage equipment and are difficult to resolve if noise levels are high.
Eddystone 730/4 Military Receiver - listening to an American Ham on 40mtrs
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Eddystone 730/4 Military Receiver - listening to an American Ham on 40mtrs
Eddystone 730/4 Military Receiver receiving a Numbers Station in the early morning
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Eddystone 730/4 Military Receiver receiving a Numbers Station in the early morning
Meter on RF, agc on fast but pointer not moving??
The meter works on AM only. This set does not have a product detector.
Sounds beautiful
Good redio
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I used an 880/1 and 880/2 in the mid sixties. Best valved receiver ever made.
Brilliant receiver. Worked on it and used it when I was an apprentice. We used them for RTTY over long distances together with the companion 1 KW transmitter. Uses the Wadley loop, that gives it great stability.
Can't understand a word , cool equipment though..
Yes, the carbon mic in use at TM80PB on the wireless set 12 was a bit of a challenge!
That Marconi H2301 Receiver is a very nice looking british build radio.Good work in keeping this alive and running..
Fantastic. Impressive mods too👍
Glad you like them!
Ein sehr schoenes Radio
Now imagine that unmodded and in a four engined bomber at full power. Brave people indeed.
ładne radio :)
ładne ciekawe radio ... gratuluję
I wonder if the homebrew Top Band TX came from the Stockwood Park rally two years ago?
Yes indeed it did!
@@vacuumfireradio253 Aha! I thought so....thanks for buying it. It's good to know it has a good home with you. 😎
I love watching your channel. Thanks!
Thanks again!
Fantastic! the TCS is one of those radios I hope to get someday!
Thanks!
Beautiful equipment. I left the first like.
Paul was using a mic preamp with a low battery causing popping on the audio. Once the battery was replaced his audio was excellent.
This is a brilliant combination video with the grass strip airfield. I wish TH-cam had delivered a notification to me when you first uploaded three months ago. I must remember to check in here more often. Thank you for filming and uploading these. 73s to all. th-cam.com/video/vhd9qRY4B2E/w-d-xo.html
Very nice set. My own R 109 has serial No 9699 and is made by RGD.
Beautiful audio quality!
I imagine you are too busy to do this... but I have found that I like interacting with you. Very few people know the details of what you are sharing here so, if you wanted, you could post short vids from time to time... just defining terms and showing examples and your traffic would increase as young people would want to learn at the dribble.
Hi Tom...I've lots of video snippets I could upload but the workflow to post to YT takes an age meaning other things must take priority. Currently restoring a 1950s AM /CW transmitter and have a mountain of work thereafter including jobs on 3 vintage vehicles and a house!
VMARS: Vintage & Military Amateur Radio Society was established in 1999 to: Encourage the conservation, restoration and use of ‘classic’ electronic equipment, with a principal focus on wireless techniques, whether applied to communications, RADAR or other pulsed signalling systems-but not neglecting line communication, audio recording, mine detecting and so on. Encourage recording of electronics related history. Preserve the knowledge and skills needed for; The use of traditional modes of communications, such as analogue AM, analogue FM, and Morse Code by radio amateurs. The use of traditional types of component, such as valves, vibrators, leaded components.
Checking in with you for another form of Atlantic Crossing. Hope you are having a good day.
Ha ha . Hi Tom and nice to hear from you. I got hold of this receiver 40 years ago...my first proper radio and have cherished it since. Full rebuild and careful reversible modifications. Have always enjoyed working on vintage tube tech...now have over 50 radios and transmitters...I'm a Ham so use the vintage gear as was intended. I see plenty of interest in vintage tech in the US too. I also have a couple of 1940 s vehicles too. Stay safe and keep bashing out the videos.
@@vacuumfireradio253, I am an Amateur Extra Class HAM as well. That reminds me... my license expires today... I need to renew. W3DAE.
Similar minds think alike Tom! Not at all surprised to hear you hold an Extra licence. I'm a full licence holder in the UK...M0IDF. I've made quite a few short video vignettes of vintage radios to share with radio chums....I'll try and upload a few more you may find of interest....Best 73...and don't forget the licence!
Just had a peek at the QRZ page Tom....haha...liked the husky. I served in the RAF as a trainee pilot whilst at University. I believe Jung might call that synchronicity....
@@vacuumfireradio253 just went online within the past hour to renew it... there was no fee for the renewal.
How do you know it's a number station and not a regular amateur? Because the frequency doesn't occur in regular amateur bandplans? It's neither in 40m nor 60m band. 6.76 MHz is below the 40m band lowest freq of 7.00 MHz. and above the highest freq 5.36 MHz of the 60m band. All the best, Rob
RobWhittlestone Hi Rob - not sure if that was a question ...as you appeared to have answered it yourself! As you say the transmission is outside the Amateur bands. I am a Radio Amateur. As I say it could be a training station (French militaire) or a genuine numbers station. My money is on the latter as the French Station is normally elsewhere....
@@vacuumfireradio253 Haha! First I was irritated by your claim that it was a numbers station without a reason then did the research and found the reason! My father was G3JMW and ZC4MW so learnt a bit from him. All the best, Rob in Switzerland
To Dirty Diaper...thanks for the comments. I've a stack of vintage radio videos ...I'll try and upload a few more for you...cheers from the UK
I have around S8 a S9 of local QRM ...hence very noisy recording...
Have you tried deciphering it?
Hi Tom - thanks for your interest...I posted this publicly as I was selling the receiver and wished to demonstrate it to a potential purchaser! The decrypt would be a incredibly difficult process. The recipient was very likely using a one time pad...virtually indecipherable...
WHAT THE F**K IS A VACUUM FIRE RADIO?
Do you know what a cathode is?
@@vacuumfireradio253 YES I'VE BEEN MESSING ABOUT WITH VALVED EQUIPMENT SINCE I WAS A KID NOW NEARLY 55YO. THERE'RE CALLED VALVED RADIOS OR VACUUM TUBE RADIOS AS THE YANKS CALL THEM. HAVE YOU BUILT-UP AN AR77 FROM SCRATCH WITHOUT A BENCH WIRING DIAGRAM OR A KT66 6TUBE PUSH PULL AMP, I THINK NOT!
control Why a challenge? You have no idea what I've done, built, rebuilt, designed, modified in the field of electronics, vehicles to houses. Be happy.
@@vacuumfireradio253 I,m currently restoring a 730/4 myself. I have a problem in that T6, the main side-band audio filter is attenuating to a massive degree, far more than it should. Also allowing no real passband audio through. I can't really understand why, as it appears to be a simple L/C filter and can't deteriorate! Have youthis problem, please? I was thinking of selecting on test, with a resistor across it's two terminals, many thanks!
I have an Amateur Extra Class license... but kept the longer call sign. W3DAE.