View Full Version : WW2 Spy Transmitter, Anyone?
W4HAY
06-22-2009, 01:24 AM
This website (http://www.qsl.net/ik0moz/paraset_eng.htm) contains photos and drawings to build a replica of the WW2 "Paraset" that was dropped to resistance operatives in Nazi occupied regions.
The circuitry is similar to what many hams started out with before, and for a decade or so after, WW2.
There's also a Paraset Club (http://www.theparasetclub.co.uk/). To assure authenticity, the conditions are very stringent .
VK2HHS
06-23-2009, 12:45 AM
Yes, a couple of us at my local club here in VK land are building Parasets. I've done 95% of the fabrication work including the box and have just started wiring the receiver.
A fun project and hope to have it on the air in a relatively short while!
Fingers crossed, that is.....
de VK2HHS
KE7PMX
06-23-2009, 04:46 AM
OK that is interesting..
I think Im going to start collecting the needed parts.
W4HAY
06-23-2009, 01:04 PM
It's amazing what simple circuits can do. My first rig was either a 6V6 or a 6AG7 (memory problems -- I used both) and the receiver was a 6C8 dual triode 'ginny.
The tank circuit of the Paraset is interesting. I just may breadboard one up and give it a whirl on 40.
Geoffrey Pidgeon's "Secret Wireless War" makes for some interesting reading.
NA0AA
07-02-2009, 07:08 PM
Geoffrey Pidgeon's "Secret Wireless War" makes for some interesting reading.
Difficult, but interesting. He needed a good editor.
But those sets and the photos are very cool - I love portable radio gear.
