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I don't know if this rig really qualifies as a "spy set" but it nevertheless is very interesting. It is a tube rig, designed for use by B-47 bomber crews who could not make it back from the Soviet Union after dropping their nuclear bombs. Supposedly they would bail out, then use these radios to call for help. Good luck with that! Note the fold-out C...
I must have missed this five months ago, but better late than never: Congratulations to Chris G7LQX for his first ham radio contact. And he was using a homebrew CW transceiver.
Details here: https://www.qrz.com/db/G7LQX
Chris has a very n...
Here is the Wikipedia on Sputnik 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1
I didn't know how badly Korolev had been injured while in the Gulag.
The transmitter had 1 watt at 20 and 40 Mhz.