Re: Tag at it again Daily Mail
Fri Jul 27, 2018 12:34 pm
raconnel wrote:They could have made a battery using coconut shells.
I see Amelia and Fred but who are those other people? AE sure is cute in pigtails.
Re: Tag at it again Daily Mail
Fri Jul 27, 2018 2:36 pm
Vacation funds at Tigger must be getting low, oh bother............................................
Re: Tag at it again Daily Mail
Fri Jul 27, 2018 2:42 pm
see Amelia and Fred but who are those other people? AE sure is cute in pigtails.
I assume if she had freckle cream then hair dye and curlers were totally possible...
Re: Tag at it again Daily Mail
Sat Jul 28, 2018 7:17 am
K5DH wrote:JohnB wrote:I don't think the "Gibson Girl" hand-cranked units were around then.
Correct. They came along during WW2. They were actually based on a captured German design.JohnB wrote:Also, I don't think they were SW.
They operated on the standard rescue frequency of 500 KHz, which is at the upper end of the Long Wave (LW) region.
Ah interesting I thought they were just a generator. Not a generator/radio combination.
Hand cranked generators must have existed back then, and that's what I was thinking of.
However JohnB makes a good point about weight.
Well it was just a thought.