[ARC5] ARC-5/SCR-274 Navigation Receivers?

[David Stinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at earthlink.net>

> ......Navy aircraft in such regions overwhelmingly
> would have been large patrol bomber aircraft like the PB4Y.  These
> mostly were equiped with the excellent USAAF SCR-269 ADF for homing,
> and a liaison station of some sort that provided a transmitter and
> receiver for such frequencies.  There's really no justification for
> the R-24 and T-15/16/17 on such aircraft for communications, nor the
> R-24 with DU for homing.

That's just it.  There's no justification for T-15/16/17 on such 
single-seat
aircraft at all, unless they were for communications.
On large patrol aircraft,  they would have been redundant.
Blast that I don't have an office for my documentation anymore!
It's all over the house.  That fighter aircraft were stationed and 
performed
many roles in secondary and tertiary theaters is in the documentation.
You weren't going to do joint manuevers with the Peruvian Air Force
unless you could talk to aircraft and water craft using freqs under 2 
MC.
T-15/16/17 in a comm role demands R-24 also have a comm role,
as well as host for ZB or a loop.

It's a pitiful shame that so much important documentation has been
destroyed, and that none of us could ever afford to spend the
next 3-4 years in the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress
and the National Archives needed to settle some of these questions.
The final answers to things like T-16 and R-24 are on some
bit of carbon-paper buried in Box BR-549 on shelf OU-812
in the National Archives, and no eye shall see it from now
until the Judgement Day.  All we're ever likely to have is tiny bits
of clues, second-hand stories and educated,
logical supposition.   It's depressing....

Back to work- got a water leak.
73 Dave S.