[ARC5] BC-453 usage?

[David Stinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Macklin" <macklinbob at msn.com>
To: "ARC-5 QTH" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:57 AM
Subject: [ARC5] BC-453 usage?


> I was a gunsight/radar tech in the USAF in the 50's 
>We still had BC-453s in use at the time but I don't 
>know what they were used for...

And more than navigation;
Into the 1960s, especially overseas, there were
still many control towers that listened on HF and VHF and 
talked back on LF- usually 278 KC.
You really needed it if you were going to fly into 
Lower Slobovostan or etc.