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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
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On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 18:58:48 -0500, JGS jgs123@comcast^dot^net
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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

Since Bruce mentioned it, I have been trying to find a picture of the Gibson
Girl. I found a picture of the box kite that was used with it;
http://home8.inet.tele.dk/r_d/klassiker/gibson-g.html

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/gib...ibsongirl.html

Thanks for an interesting thread.


Regards
JGS

Hey JGS,

I entered the words "Gibson Girl" into Google pictures, and came up
with wuite a few good clear pics of it.

Here's some links:

http://mcgp.cellmail.com/photogallery/gibson-girl.JPG

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

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.

http://mcgp.cellmail.com/photogallery/gibson-girl.JPG

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
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