This is a great book with lots of pictures! Good price, it is a large
format coffee table sized book. It includes accounts of the British
hams activities as listeners for spy transmissions or other suspicious
on air activity; the cadre of civilan ham operators who became uniformed
listeners, but not subject to regular military organization, the
transmitter sites, receiver sites, propaganda broadcasting, deception
transmissions, and how they got agents onto the continent and back off
safely. Includes photos of the mobile stations mounted in Packard cars,
or trucks, and the sets built in the MI6 workshops near Bletchley Park,
as well as the distinction between the activity at Bletchley and the
clandestine radio operations of the monitoring corps, as well as
activities of the agents sent overseas. One chapter outlines the
experiences of a German counterpart clandestine radio operator, and
another of the operator assigned to Churchill on his secret travels
during the war, long before long range air transport was the routine and
safe mode of travel enjoyed today.
No connection with the seller, just a love of old radios, as well as Ten
Tecs, and the functional designs, with no nonsense straight forward
radio design used for reliable and simple radios for MI 6. I treasure
my copy of "TSWW".
-Stuart Rohre
K5KVH
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