[AMRadio] WW II Army Field Sets

[Kim Elmore]

Quite right: no B-29s served in Europe because they came on line too late. 
In the fictional world of short stories some suspension of belief is 
likely, so I think there's an easy way out. In October, well after even VJ 
day, the supply sergeant serving our protagonist inexplicably receives a 
shipment of ART-13s as "surplus." Never asked for 'em, doesn't know why he 
got 'em, but they were duly signed for and are now his.

I'd really love to use the BC-610, but I can't think of a good way to for 
an individual to transport it without making that short story in itself. In 
fact, there are many factual short stories about moving -- much less making 
operational -- BC-610s right here on the web :)

I just sent off quick query to the Signal Corps asking about HF CW 
protocols during WW II. That's something that I haven't found *any* 
information on outside of a single blurb from the British guy about 
operations in Korea.

Now that I've read a bit about the BC-610, I'd love to try my hand at 
getting one back on the air :)  It looks like the SCR-399 was the ultimate 
Field Day set up!

Kim Elmore, N5OP

At 03:35 PM 7/12/2004, you wrote:

>In a message dated 7/12/04 7:41:28 AM, Kim.Elmore at noaa.gov writes:
>
>
> > Ah!  The perfect match!  The ART-13 it will be.
> >
>Kim,
>
>Well, not quite that simple I'm afraid.   If you place your GI in Europe
>there's a problem because the B-29's were not used there.  The 29 was a 
>very long
>ranged aircraft specifically designed to bomb Japan and all were deployed to
>the Pacific theater.   The Navy had a shipboard adaptation of the ART-13
>including a 117 vac power supply and called it the TDZ.   Probably some of 
>these
>kicking around in Europe at the time but we're probably getting a bit far 
>afield
>now as would also be the case of salvaging an ART-13 off a Navy aircraft.
>
>Entirely possible that an event in accordance with your story line could have
>taken place, but the most likely equipment on the American side would have
>been the BC-610.   The '610s were widely used by military personnel on the 
>ham
>bands when these reopened after the war, in many cases with made up 
>calls.
>
>
>Dennis D. W7QHO
>Glendale, CA
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                           Kim Elmore, Ph.D.
                        University of Oklahoma
         Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
"All of weather is divided into three parts: Yes, No, and Maybe. The
greatest of these is Maybe" The original Latin appears to be garbled.