Hi, Dan–
I have updated my radio kit guide at http://radiokitguide.com. This is a list I maintain of available radio kits on the Internet.
Feel free to suggest any that I missed.
–Neil W2NDG
Hi Dan,
I have curated an extensive set of CW resources that you might consider reviewing and selectively adding to the CW Op’s website. If you scroll down to the bottom of my QRZ page, you will find resources grouped together by type. Morse Camp and ebook2cw are noteworthy considerations for software. And the Discord CW WWW is a great online resource to practice with others.
73,
Kurt Zoglmann – AD0WE
Hi, Dan–We are watching White Heat with James Cagney and near the end of the movie Edmond O’Brien rigs up a transmitter from a tabletop radio that is supposedly broken. The gang is going to us a fuel truck to gain access to a chemical plant where they plan to steal the payroll of more than $400,000.00 – so the undercover FBI agent takes his transmitter and wires it up under the fuel truck (power courtesy of a dry cell battery) and off they go… The fuel truck starts spouting steam from the radiator, so they pull into a gas station. While the attendant fills the radiator, the G man heads for the men’s room. He uses a bar of soap to put a message on the mirror about the radio and to call the police. The police get the FCC to send out radio location cars and they triangulate the route the truck was taking and they figured out where they were going and then the FBI was dispatched to the chemical plant, and the place of Cody Jarret’s demise.
The radio played a key role in bringing about the end of the bad guys, and the FCC tracked their progress to their objective in Mercury sedans equipped with a loop antenna on the roof and a wheel to turn to the bearing from which the signal was coming.
While fanciful and pure Hollywood, it was still interesting to see how they traced the route of the fuel truck Trojan Horse and ultimately caught up with the criminals – who were all killed by the FBI as they tried to escape justice.
If you get a chance to see it, the undercover FBI man converting the radio from receiver to transmitter was interesting, but earlier in the picture the FBI are discussing how to track the bad guys and they are using a Hallicrafters radio with a trapezoidal housed speaker that had a Hallicrafters h logo in the bottom right corner. In 1949 this was top line shortwave radio tech, and they had a small transmitter to track the criminals with, but ended up not going with that plan because the prison break went differently than planned so the getaway car wasn’t used by the undercover FBI man and his partner in crime, Cody Jarrett.
I thought if you haven’t seen it in a while you might enjoy seeing what they did with radio.
73,
Steve ~ W8SFC
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