[ARC5] What did they talk to?

[Unserviceable but Repairable]

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} AirRadio wrote:
} 
}  > To use the scr-522 and have repeaters is absurd as there would have
}  > to be repeaters in occupied territory and therefore not feasable....
} 

That writer is considering repeaters as instruments set up by ham clubs.
IE 146.82/22 on a 100' Rohn 45.  I agree that not even the wild bunch
would have considered setting one of these up in Brechtesgarden mall.

The ARC-10, etc. relay is in an airplane 'way up & 'way far away.  & it's
a deal where input ~100mhz to antenna in rear & TX ~150mhz from antenna
in nose.  No duplexer cavities.

And Dave sez


}  Max makes a good point I hadn't considered.

just addressed

} I have no doubt AN/ARC-10 existed at some level
} and that it was used at some time.  My argument is
   - - - - - -
} fast-advance environment at the close of the war,
} when direct comm between the pilots and headquarters
} would have been more efficient and all the territory
} between HQ and the target was in Allied hands.
} Trying to orbit a couple of "repeater" planes
} to cover raids on Berlin before that time
} would have been suicide;
} you'd have to fix an aircraft in one position
} for a long period over enemy-held territory.
} He'd be a "sitting duck."

In post that started the flap, I sed ther relay planes flew over 
western France.  In spring '45.


  'rm