[ARC5] Airplane radios in tanks

[David Stinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Eleazer" <releazer at earthlink.net>
Subject: [ARC5] Airplane radios in tanks


>.....  I know the SCR-522 was used as a ground vehicle radio for FAC use.

I once helped a Forward Air Controller vets group build their "early" and 
"late"
versions of their FAC jeeps.  The early version used an SCR-287
and two SCR-522s.  The late version used AN/ARC-8 and two
AN/ARC-3s.  They gave me one of their commemorative books. :)

> And I know that the L-4's in Europe were at first fitted with light 
> aircraft
>HF gear and then were equipped with gear such as BC-1335, BC-659,
>or BC-620.  Were any 274-N used that way?
I can't speak for the L-4, but I have all the erection and
maint. manuals for the L-5, which was a contemporary.
The 6-Volt version was speced for RCA AVT-15 / AVR-20.
The 12-Volt version was speced for RCA AVT-112 / AVR-20
The 24-volt version was speced for SCR-274N.
None were speced for any VHF radio, but several VHF sets
were "jimmyed" into the aircraft so they could talk to the
rapidly-advancing mechanized units.  This sort of "on the fly"
was common all over the place- not just in aircraft, which is why
it's a mistake to say "they never did this" or "they always did that."

Somewhere in my boxes of stuff are documents of both SCR-274N
and SCR-287 installed in large rescue boats launched to
recovered downed airmen.  IIRC, these were Pacific-based.
None of these documents mention any VHF equipment in the boats.

73 Dave S.