October 21, 1934 at the Tillamook Light Station, Oregon -- W7DIZ Saves the Day by Building a Transmitter (and Receiver!) from Scratch

 

W7DIZ is seated on the right.  Note headphones.

From the January 1935 issue of QST: 

Shown here is the Tillamook Rock Lighthouse as viewed from the south, with Tillamook Head overlooking in the background, in about 1930.

For a truly harrowing acccount of the storm see:  https://www.ohs.org/blog/saga-of-the-tillamook-rock-lighthouse.cfm

Here is what they wrote about W7DIZ's heroic improvisation: 

Without a way to communicate with the mainland, assistant keeper and radio enthusiast Jenkins (radio callsign W7DIZ) showed “perseverance in contriving a shortwave radio sending and receiving apparatus from miscellaneous materials available at the station which resulted in reestablishing communication,” first with Seaside gardener and amateur radio operator Henry Goetze (W7CXK). One telegram, received at 7:10pm on October 23, read:

Derrick gone, water tanks moved, west end rock gone, sixteen plate glass broken stop Telephone cable broken at rock…light will be in operation Thursday stop Assistant Hanson right hand deeply cut stop Recommend sending inspector check station stop Assistant Jenkins Amateur radio in operation reply via Western union care of Henry Goetze Seaside Oregon.

Thanks to Bob KD4EBM for alerting me to this.  It would be great to have more details on the rig that W7DIZ built in the wake of the storm.  Unfortunately, this seems to be one of those cases where AI just seems to muddy the waters.  When asked for details of Jenkin's build, AI came back with some suspiciously detailed answers.  Sure enough, these answers were just guesses that AI made, based on nothing more than the contents of 1930s era ham log books.  

Can anyone tell us more about what W7DIZ actually built?