{"id":42788,"date":"2020-04-13T08:32:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T12:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=42788"},"modified":"2020-04-13T08:32:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T12:32:40","slug":"radio-waves-dave-moves-ic-705-delay-high-speed-telegraphy-meet-and-wwi-biplane-wireless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/radio-waves-dave-moves-ic-705-delay-high-speed-telegraphy-meet-and-wwi-biplane-wireless\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Waves: Dave Moves, IC-705 delay, High Speed Telegraphy Meet, and WWI Biplane Wireless"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Radio Waves:\u00a0 Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio<\/h2>\n

Because I keep my ear to the waves, as well as receive many tips from others who do the same, I find myself privy to radio-related stories that might interest\u00a0SWLing Post<\/em>\u00a0readers.\u00a0 To that end:\u00a0Welcome to the\u00a0SWLing Post\u2019s<\/em> Radio Waves<\/em>, a collection of links to interesting stories making waves in the world of radio.\u00a0<\/strong>Enjoy!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post<\/em> contributors Dave Zantow (N9EWO), Paul Evans (W4\/VP9KF), and Mike Hangen (K8RAT) for the following tips:<\/p>\n

\n

Dave’s Radio Receiver Page Moves Again (N9EWO)<\/a><\/h3>\n

With all of the strange happenings and excessive \u201cPop-Up\u201d issues on Angelfire (even more so of late), we have finally decided to move off of that web host and made the move to QSL.NET.<\/p>\n

So \u201cDave\u2019s Radio Receiver Page\u201d new URL is :<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.qsl.net\/n9ewo\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Please, for anyone who have web pages that have my web page linked (with the now old URL), I would appreciate the correction. Hopefully this will be the last time I will need to move the page.[…]<\/p>\n

Please Note : Are still a few pages that still need to be transferred, but I expect to have that completed over the weekend. This has been quite a bit of work recoding all (again).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Icom IC-705 availability delayed due to Coronavirus<\/a><\/h3>\n

Paul Evans notes that Martin Lynch and Sons\u00a0 (ML&S)<\/a> has just updated the product page for the IC-705 with the following note: “RRP \u00a31199.95 incl 20% VAT. Estimated delivery now July 2020 due to major component shortage.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Icom America retailers (Universal Radio, Ham Radio Outlet, Gigaparts, etc.) have not published an estimate for availability.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

QRQPoint – The meeting place for high speed telegraphy enthusiasts in Europe (Southgate ARC)<\/a><\/h3>\n

Dear OM and all CW lovers,
\nI will you proudly inform, that our website\u00a0http:\/\/www.qrqpoint.com<\/a>\u00a0is now online.<\/p>\n

The idea of this meeting place for CW enthusiasts was born by me and the webmaster,\u00a0Fabian, DJ1YFK<\/strong>, brought it very nice to the web. Thank you Fabian!<\/p>\n

Everybody is very kindly invited to be there QRV.<\/p>\n

The frequency is 3567 khz. To make a sked or just to say Hello we have a little Shoutbox on the site.<\/p>\n

I hope to see you there!<\/p>\n

Kindest regards,<\/p>\n

Olaf, DL1OP<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In World War I, British Biplanes Had Wireless Phones in the Cockpit (IEEE Spectrum)<\/a><\/h3>\n

Pilots on reconnaissance missions could immediately call in their findings<\/p>\n

As soon as the first humans went up in hot air balloons in the late 1700s, military strategists saw the tantalizing possibilities of aerial reconnaissance. Imagine being able to spot enemy movements and artillery from on high\u2014even better if you could instantly communicate those findings to colleagues on the ground. But the technology of the day didn\u2019t offer an elegant way to do that.<\/p>\n

By the early 20th century, all of the necessary elements were in place to finally make aerial reconnaissance a reality: the telegraph, the telephone, and the airplane. The challenge was bringing them together. Wireless enthusiasts faced reluctant government bureaucrats, who were parsimonious in funding an unproven technology.<\/p>\n

[…]One early attempt involved wireless telegraphy\u2014sending telegraph signals by radio. Its main drawback was size. The battery pack and transmitter weighed up to 45 kilograms and took up an entire seat on a plane, sometimes overflowing into the pilot\u2019s area. The wire antenna trailed behind the plane and had to be reeled in before landing. There was no room for a dedicated radio operator, and so the pilot would have to do everything: observe the enemy, consult the map, and tap out coordinates in Morse code, all while flying the plane under enemy fire.<\/p>\n

Despite the complicated setup, some pioneers managed to make it work.[…<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Radio Waves:\u00a0 Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio Because I keep my ear to the waves, as well as receive many tips from others who do the same, I find myself privy to radio-related stories that might interest\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0readers.\u00a0 To that end:\u00a0Welcome to the\u00a0SWLing Post\u2019s Radio Waves, a collection of links to interesting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3,305,288,43],"tags":[2584,8186,7978,2884,7977,7322,3422,7864,4508],"class_list":["post-42788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dave-zantow-n9ewo","tag-high-speed-telegraphy","tag-ic-705","tag-icom","tag-icom-ic-705","tag-ieee-spectrum","tag-mike-k8rat","tag-paul-evans-w4-vp9kf","tag-wwi-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-b88","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42649,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/icom-ic-705-delivery-has-been-delayed\/","url_meta":{"origin":42788,"position":0},"title":"Icom IC-705 delivery has been delayed","author":"Thomas","date":"April 3, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Evans, who writes: As you'd expect, Icom has formally delayed the delivery schedule of the IC-705. 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