{"id":3699,"date":"2015-07-24T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/24\/ham-radio-on-the-kon-tiki\/"},"modified":"2015-07-24T10:11:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T00:11:00","slug":"ham-radio-on-the-kon-tiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/24\/ham-radio-on-the-kon-tiki\/","title":{"rendered":"Ham Radio on the Kon-Tiki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qEvM4HxQxSQ?rel=0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <strong>Hi Bill<\/strong> <\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437732065819_3128\"> <strong>Just found a short Youtube QRP video which is quite fun. It&#8217;s of the radio side of Thor Heyerdahl&#8217;s cross-Pacific Kon-Tiki raft expedition in 1947, operating \/MM with 7 watts. I found a longer description of what they had and what they did &#8211; including a thrilling tale of drying components on coral reefs while they desperately tried to make contact having washed up on an island &#8211; but not of the unusual parrot incident with a hydrogen balloon-lofted antenna during the voyage. That&#8217;s only in the video.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437732065819_3107\"> <strong><\/strong> <\/div>\n<div> <strong>It&#8217;s all gripping adventure radio stuff, and shows what HF and a bunch of tubes could do before the digital satcom age.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437732065819_3109\"> <strong><\/strong> <\/div>\n<div> <strong>The video&#8217;s here &#8211; <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qEvM4HxQxSQ\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437732065819_3110\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qEvM4HxQxSQ<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437732065819_3140\"> <strong>and the write-up (excerpted below) is here &#8211; <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/last-surviving-crew-member-of-i-kon-tiki-i-expedition-passes-away\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/last-surviving-crew-member-of-i-kon-tiki-i-expedition-passes-away<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437732065819_3142\"> <strong><\/strong> <\/div>\n<div> <strong>&#8220;The expedition used call sign LI2B and carried three watertight radio transmitters. The first operated on the 40 and 20 meters, the second on 10 meters and the third on 6 meters. Each unit was made up entirely of 2E30 vacuum tubes providing 10 W of RF input. As an emergency backup, they also carried a German Mark V transceiver originally re-created by Britain&#8217;s Special Operations Executive in 1942. Other equipment included a hand-cranked emergency set of the Gibson Girl type for use on the maritime bands, a special VHF set for contacting aircraft and two British Mark II transmitters. The Kon-Tiki also carried a National Radio Company NC-173 receiver. Dry batteries and a hand-cranked generator supplied the power.&#8221;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437732065819_3144\"> <strong>73s<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437732065819_3146\"> <strong>Rupert, G6HVY<\/strong><\/div>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Bill Just found a short Youtube QRP video which is quite fun. It&#8217;s of the radio side of Thor Heyerdahl&#8217;s cross-Pacific Kon-Tiki raft expedition in 1947, operating \/MM with 7 watts. I found a longer description of what they had and what they did &#8211; including a thrilling tale of drying components on coral &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/24\/ham-radio-on-the-kon-tiki\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ham Radio on the Kon-Tiki&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,92,100,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-balloon","category-norway","category-old-radio","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}