A thought for Easter....
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From: EGDC
Sycamore - I bring the gear up
Tet - far easier to find out what frequency they are using and jam it with a powerful transmission on the same one. ISTR 35 mhz was what was used 20 years ago for radio controlled aircraft. Shooting them down would be more fun though
Tet - far easier to find out what frequency they are using and jam it with a powerful transmission on the same one. ISTR 35 mhz was what was used 20 years ago for radio controlled aircraft. Shooting them down would be more fun though
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From: Australia
Good thinking 99, yeah the models used to go ballistic when they got too close the ol' NDB, then if they went past and be shielded from hapless gyro on the ground, they'd go on quite some distance at times. We'd be forever getting calls inbound late in the afternoon, "Can I jump in with yer for a few minutes to find the model?" One dude reckoned, "wouldn't ya think they'd design a little ELT for these suckers?"
But you're right, shotties used to be heaps of fun, hitting the dingoes, how many times before they hit the ground again? etc. Handed my magic five shot SKB in with the 'Howard buy back,' unfortunately.
Was interested to watch the last segment on the Titanic series last night where a few dudes recreated a lot of stuff, including the Marconi radio. To test it they had to install it in a Faraday cage and retransmitted the signal via little CB radio from outside.Maybe they were scared of setting of the poms air raid alarms?
As a bit of trivia, especially for Savoia, I had a Step Grandfather, long dead now who used to work for Marconi and the same shipping line, installing those radios and doing the radios maiden voyage instructing the ships new operators. He was on duty that fateful night and heard it all, doing retransmitting etc from some distance away. They used to write up a ships newspaper to 'roneo' off every morning and when the Captain got to see where he reported the disaster he says, 'do a re print that didn't happen!'.. No word of apology when they docked at Southampton a few days later.
cheers tet
But you're right, shotties used to be heaps of fun, hitting the dingoes, how many times before they hit the ground again? etc. Handed my magic five shot SKB in with the 'Howard buy back,' unfortunately.
Was interested to watch the last segment on the Titanic series last night where a few dudes recreated a lot of stuff, including the Marconi radio. To test it they had to install it in a Faraday cage and retransmitted the signal via little CB radio from outside.Maybe they were scared of setting of the poms air raid alarms?
As a bit of trivia, especially for Savoia, I had a Step Grandfather, long dead now who used to work for Marconi and the same shipping line, installing those radios and doing the radios maiden voyage instructing the ships new operators. He was on duty that fateful night and heard it all, doing retransmitting etc from some distance away. They used to write up a ships newspaper to 'roneo' off every morning and when the Captain got to see where he reported the disaster he says, 'do a re print that didn't happen!'.. No word of apology when they docked at Southampton a few days later.
cheers tet
