[ARC5] Basic Question on Use of Command Sets

[LARRY D GODEK]

Heh heh.  Yep.  Same place with the B-24.  Stick your head out the side gun position and smell the exhaust!  Talk about loud but what a place to view the countryside as you go by!
 
Larry
W0OGH

 
> From: macklinbob at msn.com
> To: releazer at earthlink.net; arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 17:49:27 -0800
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Basic Question on Use of Command Sets
> 
> The command sets were only used by the pilots and co-pilots. Bombers had a 
> intercom set in a case the same size as a ARC-5/SCR-274 receiver.
> 
> All crew members were on the intercom. But the Command Set was not on the 
> intercom.
> 
> Do you want to know the nosiest place in a bomber? It's the open waist gun 
> ports! Especially in a B-25. You are looking right at the exhaust stacks!
> 
> Bob Macklin
> K5MYJ
> Seattle, Wa.
> "Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Eleazer" <releazer at earthlink.net>
> To: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 5:41 PM
> Subject: [ARC5] Basic Question on Use of Command Sets
> 
> 
> > Relative to the ongoing discussion of audio output capabilities of ARC-5 
> > sets, prior to WWII was there any need for such sets to be used in 
> > anything but fighters and perhaps 2 seat trainers?
> >
> > Didn't the pre-war bombers and transports use Liason sets like the 
> > BC-224-A? As we saw in those photos for that unrestored O-47, which did 
> > not seem to have an Command Sets, either SCR-183/283 or 274's.
> >
> > Was the SCR-274 equipment added to bombers fairly late, just before the 
> > war, when they realized that just the Liasion set alone was not adequate 
> > for operational use?
> >
> > If so, the need to run more than a couple of headsets with the receiver 
> > output would not have been required. And bombers had intercom systems to 
> > take care of the larger load anyway.
> >
> > Wayne
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