- 1. [Amps] Kon-Tiki (score: 1)
- Author: StephenTetorka@cs.com
- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 19:36:32 EDT
- Hi all: I just watched Thor's documentary movie on the Kon-Tiki expedtion. His receiver was an NC-173. Might anyone know what his " 7 watt" transmitter was? Regards, Steve WA2TAK ____________________
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- 2. Re: [Amps] Kon-Tiki (score: 1)
- Author: "kenw2dtc" <kenw2dtc@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 20:21:01 -0400
- The transmitter was documented as being homebrew. 73, Ken W2DTC -- _______________________________________________ Amps mailing list Amps@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/a
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- 3. Re: [Amps] Kon-Tiki (score: 1)
- Author: W2RU - Bud Hippisley <W2RU@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 01:15:08 +0000
- Early in his book Heyerdahl writes about "...the transmission, which was to be done partly with short-wave transmitters specially constructed for our purpose and partly with secret sabotage sets used
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- 4. Re: [Amps] Kon-Tiki (score: 1)
- Author: Karl-Arne Markström <sm0aom@telia.com>
- Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 09:50:45 +0200
- If I remember the exhibition in the Oslo Kon-Tiki museum correctly, at least one of the transmitters was the British "suitcase set" that was known as "Berit" in the Norwegian resistance movement. It
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- 5. Re: [Amps] Kon-Tiki (score: 1)
- Author: W2RU - Bud Hippisley <W2RU@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 13:51:25 +0000
- Yes, those are probably the last-mentioned transmitters in the following additional text from December 1947 QST: "Other equipment...included a hand-cranked emergency set of the Gibson Girl type for 5
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