WW2 Wireless Set No. 62, My first QSO

WW2 British Wireless Set No.62, CW and AM QSO on 80 meters amateur radio bands.

[@forthy62]

It is always a pleasure to see you maintaining and operating theese old radios! And what a beautifull countryside! 73, Stephan, DF6PA

[@alastairbarkley6572]

Designed with airborne units in mind, Helge. The earlier WS22 sets were not surviving water immersion when they landed off target. The WS62 was designed to float and be totally water resistant. This set only appeared at the end of the war because of a previously critical shortage of aluminium affecting both UK and US. Aircraft production had priority.

[@jon-jamesdougherty9982]

I served in the British Amry in Malaya from January 1957. This was by far our preferred wireless. Despite the low power its CW could reach other continents with relative ease. Most of our sets were manufactured in late 1940s and when we received them they were still in their waxed paper coverings. A far better RX and TX than the WS19.

[@G4KDXlive]

Very nice location and congrats on the QSOs OM!

[@justinmaas5834]

Good on you for putting that on the air.

[@joeblow8593]

Thanks for showing all this great equipment from long ago. Amazing signals for such low power

[@MrRadioRover]

This is ham radio internet GOLD! Keep the videos coming!

[@mattbates6887]

I had the PYE 62 set in the 70s, and it was fun to operate on AM, I didn't use CW at the time. I worked an Irish station on 7 MHz one Sunday morning as I remember, must have been very good propagation NVIS conditions, using a dipole antenna at 10 Meters AGL. I didn't use the carbon microphone, instead I had a mono hifi amplifier running 2 EL84s in push pull, with the speaker output connection plugged directly into the microphone socket. The microphone was an Eagle crystal mic! This set up worked amazingly well, all I did was turn up the volume control until I just got a slight forward peak reading on the Ae current meter. This resulted in an Irish station on AM giving me a 5 and 9 report, he also made the remark that my modulation was BBC quality to my surprise. I also used the 62 set on Top Band AM as well, although the antenna used was a 132' end fed at 10 Meters AGL. I had a good Earth connection to the 62 set chassis, which helped enormously with my signal from the end fed. With the roller coaster inductor and variable capacitor matching section, it was very easy to tune for max RF current! Great times they were, when I unpacked my 62 set, it came in a wooden box. packed with straw! It was in very good condition, looked as good never been used! Came complete with headphones as well as carbon mic of course. Great video, brought back some happy memories! 😉😊

[@LA6NCA]

Thanks for the great comment. I should make a video where I use this for AM with this radio. Your radio in its original straw case would have been valuable now.

[@mattbates6887]

@@LA6NCAYes I guess the 62 set in it's original straw wooden crate , was quite a bargain for what I paid for it in the mid 70s. They were advertised for sale in the UK, in shortwave magazine at the time as I remember. I haven't looked up the SW mag on the internet yet, to see how much they were selling for at the time, will have to do that. Unfortunately I gave the 62 set away to a SWL friend, who wanted a HF receiver. Big mistake that, wish I had kept it now. Yes I guess it would be quite valuable now, as a collectors item in it's original box. If I still had it now I certainly wouldn't sell it, it was a great transceiver. I can still remember putting my finger on the antenna connector, and getting a small RF burn on my finger. Quite amusing that was, as I remember lol! 73

[@swagmanexplores7472]

Great video and thanks for the English subtitles. I am currently restoring another WS62 and have owned/restored several over the past 25 years

[@terryhowell5513]

I absolutely love anything about radio communication these radios are excellent 1 watt on cw that’s fantastic and 06 miliwatt on am that’s brilliant work I find that your video interesting the radios you have are real radios with great rx/tx

[@GM0EKM]

Very interesting with the very low output power.

[@bill-2018]

That's nice to see, Helge. It's a good distance for a.m.. I was looking out for one of these but got a wireless 19 Set.Very tatty and much work needed to get it going properly. Run low h.t. for QRP and xtal on tx. I hadn't used sidetone for 30 years until I got an FT817 3 years ago. G4GHB

[@littlebear5219]

Hi my name is Peter G0LVG I remember having a ws62 set years ago and everything you have said about the radio is quite true it is very noisy a bit like switching a vacuum cleaner on! The radio was made by pye Telecommunications after all its faults it was good fun.

[@psnpacific]

Great video, please keep making them 👍

[@SeAfasia]

Thank you share nice video with that radios..73

[@lorksmoot4937]

Thank you for sharing your interesting equipment. The quality of your videos is constantly improving. Best wishes from Southern Illinois, USA.

[@alastairbarkley6572]

WS62 serial numbers up to 1000 had a badly designed modulator which rendered the set almost ineffective on AM. The design error was corrected in later ones.

[@G6PBS]

Great video Helga. If you get the chance try a ZC1. There are quite a few of us ZC1 owners out there. Maybe work you one day. 73 de Colin G6PBS

[@andreaskistler8624]

Great, tnx Helge, I always look for your testings.

[@FranciscoGonzalez-gl7qo]

Gran vídeo , excelente operación del equipo felicitaciones. Gracias ,73s desde Chile CA 5 FGI.

[@grahamogle6332]

My first HF contact was on a WS62 in the cadet force in school, 1976. Tuned to 5066KHz by eye, called "All stations” and made contact with another school about 100km away. With no frequency meter, we could have been 200KHz off frequency, but it worked! 73 CT7AXD

[@LA6NCA]

So fun to hear about this from the old days.

[@grahamogle6332]

@@LA6NCA One day, it was decided that we needed a WS19 set so off we went to a local signals depot and collected a 19 set which had been used and a brand new, never issued high power amplifier still in the wooden box. But still no frequency meter!

[@juslitor]

Interesting as always, thank you.

[@pedromolin6941]

Me encanta, fantastico...un aparato hecho con arte y cariño hecho para toda la vida

[@vacuumfireradio253]

Pye, the manufacturer produced a solid state inverter supply for the set ..the no.36 supply..it is silent and much lower consumption. They were used for jungle warfare. The frequency setting is done with the matching wavemeter...you're missing that bit of kit.

[@LA6NCA]

Thanks for the interesting comment. In a new video I will show how to set the correct frequency with a frequency calibrator BC-221.

[@vacuumfireradio253]

Hi Helge - they were also run on dry batteries for use by Special Forces.

[@TrimeshSZ]

There was a later model which replaced the dynamotor with a transistorized inverter. I had one of the ones with the inverter - based on the stamps inside, it was built (or possibly rebuilt?) in 1963, which amazed me because I would have assumed it would have been long obsolete by then - the one I had also came with a "Calibrators Crystal No. 10" which plugged into a socket on the right side of the front panel.

[@oe5awl1]

Fine station and very nice video. Congratulations ! 73 de OE5AWL Gust

[@ArmandoRobertos]

very fine old timer ! 73s from XE3ARV

[@peterpb0ans68]

Another nice video to watch. Thanks for posting. 73 Peter PB0ANS

[@ashifabedin]

Amazing, I am from Bangladesh

[@mmouse928]

As usual very good video. Not to many of does in North America. Be safe. Mario VE3WPZ

[@OdySlim]

Greetings from W3CV

[@Cavewalker76]

Thank you for sharing this video. Nice environment too. :-) Nice contact you made. I am wondering, how is the frequency stability from this set? Unfortunatly I don't hear many cw stations drifting on the band anymore ( probably with WWII sets ), 20 years ago I heard many of them.

[@pengagumrahasia4829]

Amazing,am from Indonesian....

[@Max27653]

Good video and nice to see how you adapt to this speed. Can you make a video about the antennas you use in your videos? and How you set them up, like in 10m

[@heinz-jurgenhemp8473]

👍👍👍

[@user-lk2nn5ei5x]

👍👍👍👍👍 de R1CBD 73!

[@KuvashDok]

Sehr schöne Land. Grüße von ZP5ACL

[@matthalsey387]

Great video but I am sure some would object to using a German Junker CW key on a British WS :-)

[@AntonioPerez-dn1vc]

73 dx of EA7EFN. QSL

[@user-uv8np8bw3f]

Gd tnx de hl1oyf kim 73

[@kittony71]

ha ha haa i like this radio give me one