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JGS jgs123@comcast^dot^net wrote: I couldn't resist doing a google for Gibson Girl. Found her :) http://aog.ussnoxubee.com/electronics.html What an interesting read. Thanks!! Regards JGS Getting one of those between your legs and cranking the internal generator, was a once in a lifetime experience, for most folks. Yea, they all said once in a lifetime is enough. Kind of puts a crimp in your energy output after an hour or so..... Bruce in alaska -- add a 2 before @ |
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 18:58:48 -0500, JGS jgs123@comcast^dot^net
wrote: /// Since Bruce mentioned it, I have been trying to find a picture of the Gibson Girl.... but I have not found a picture of the unit itself. I am guessing it looked similar to the Notsender NS2 shown he http://home.hccnet.nl/l.meulstee/gibsongirl/gibsongirl.html Thanks for an interesting thread. Regards JGS Look down page for (US) SCR-578 at the same URL. This *is* a Gibson Girl. Brian W |
Look down page for (US) SCAR-578 at the same URL.
This *is* a Gibson Girl. The ones that I remember seeing in our avionics shop were the AN/CRT-3. I believe they were in for a frequency change,. This was around 1960. My area was overhauling the ARC-27 at that time. Leanne |
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 19:45:03 GMT, Me wrote:
f you have a Handheld Marine VHF that can only communicate out to 6 miles over water, you need to have it checked out by a compitant Tech, because it is certainly not operating correctly. I am referring to using a Standard Horizon VHF handheld (a 260S...nice unit) while bobbing in a Zodiac a mile south of the Leslie St. Spit at Toronto and raising my wife at dock (42 feet of mast height) at Ontario Place. The signal must transit several low islands (Toronto Islands) and I found that six to seven miles at dawn was about as good as I got. If I am a mile south of the Islands in the main boat, I can frequently hear U.S. Coast Guard traffic in Youngstown, 24 miles or so south south east. So I don't think there's a problem, but I am merely pointing out a worst-case scenario. The wife commented she had trouble hearing me: I heard her 5 by 5 on 06. I could also raise Prescott Radio (Canadian Coast Guard) which is miles away and a few repeaters (Oakville, Fonthill, etc.). I reported a nav hazard (a twelve-foot tree limb low in the water) in Ashbridge's Bay early in the morning on a Sunday,and was gratified to get an immediate response. I gave 'em the GPS co-ords and went on my merry way. |
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http://www.rtpnet.org/robroy/targetk...e/gibson02.jpg http://www.rtpnet.org/robroy/targetk...e/gibson03.jpg http://www.rtpnet.org/robroy/targetk...e/gibson04.jpg http://www.qsl.net/zl2bbb/Kapiti%20R...ibson_girl.jpg http://www.qsl.net/pe1ngz/airforce/l...on-girl-uk.jpg http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/modern_flight/c47gg.htm http://www.northnorfolk.org/nnarg/exhibits.htm http://www.greenradio.de/b_gibsona.htm Hope I helped. Donny www.picturetrail.com/sixbennetts You most certainly did help! I was not familiar with Google pictures at all. Seems as if I have to learn what Google pictures is all about. Many thanks!!!! Regards JGS Glad I could help. Donny www.picturetrail.com/sixbennetts |
"rhys" wrote
I could also raise Prescott Radio (Canadian Coast Guard) which is miles away and a few repeaters (Oakville, Fonthill, etc.). I wasn't aware there are repeaters on the authorized marine channels. There's nothing like that out here on the west coast of Canada. |
In article 5iKEd.47483$Xk.14784@pd7tw3no, "Richard P."
wrote: "rhys" wrote I could also raise Prescott Radio (Canadian Coast Guard) which is miles away and a few repeaters (Oakville, Fonthill, etc.). I wasn't aware there are repeaters on the authorized marine channels. There's nothing like that out here on the west coast of Canada. I think he was refering to Mountain Top Remote Radio Sites, that both the US and Canadian Coast Guards use out here on the Left Coast..... Actually there is a provision in Part 80, for Repeaters on Marine VHF Channels, and they actually are used in certain places in alaska.... Bruce in alaska -- add a 2 before @ |
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