[sparkscoffee] Re: Sparks Movie - Titanic
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- Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 16:35:15 -0500
DR
I was referring to Radio Shack and all the other old time electronic buisnesses
that went out of business
replaced by China and other low cost countries.
Comrade B
-----Original Message-----
From: D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea@xxxxxxxx>
To: sparkscoffee <sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, Feb 7, 2015 8:47 am
Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: Sparks Movie - Titanic
Comrade,
It has nothing to do with capitalism, unless under communism all ships would
have 100 watts spark on 500 kHz.
The question was what was the most powerful MF transmitter you ever keyed?
Mine is MF 1 kW, HF 5 kW both ship and shore.
JS did you ever have a big MF transmitter?
73
DR
On Feb 7, 2015 11:32 AM, "Redacted sender sblumen123@xxxxxxx for DMARC" <
dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
DR
That is captalisim for you.
Comrade B.
-----Original Message-----
From: D.J.J. Ring, Jr. < n1ea@xxxxxxxx>
To: sparkscoffee < sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, Feb 6, 2015 5:45 pm
Subject: [sparkscoffee] Sparks Movie - Titanic
Comrade, start the projector!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSDWHjBgDkw
The guillotine key shown on Titanic was the right key, but it wasn't the key
furnished for the California station. The large guillotine key (it has a
shorting switch on the left side) was only furnished with the top of the line,
5 kW spark station which was put on the Olympic class passenger ships, Olympic,
Titanic, and Brittiania. I have a "communications range" circle done by
investigating actual message traffic with know QTH of the various ships -
Olympic way to the west of Titanic was in communication with Titanic - and both
were in QSO with MCE Cape Race - great range those 5 kW stations - the most
powerful ship stations in the world.
What was the largest MF installation you guys used on ship?
I had a 1 kW on several ships - Scientific Radio by Raytheon on MF nice
sounding keying but terrible QSK and excellent modulation. We also used one of
those at Tuckerton Radio/WSC.
I had 5 kW on HF on Stella Lykes / WPHZ. It made quite a difference when I
was having problems getting WOO from the Eastern Med - as soon as I popped on
the 5 kW they came back on me.
We had 5 kW transmitters at WSC also!
Most ships were 200 to 350 watts on MF and about the same on HF - the ships
with the MRU-35 transmitters had 1 kW on HF.
How about you? Any of you use 10 kW on MF? The Queen Mary had 10 kW and 30
kW on MF. The 30 kW would dim the lights in the dining room, and the CRO had
to call the Captain and the C/Engr before using it to make sure the generators
wouldn't blow!
73
David N1EA
Radio room scenes, deleted from the movie theatre cut.
Even something for RR, a nice conspiracy theory movie about Titanic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkaxu3qtShU
73
DR
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