[ARC5] 500 KHZ Emergency Frequency

[Robert Eleazer]

A friend of mine has a clock that came off a ship.  It has red pie shaped areas marked to indicate the periods when you were to shut down your transmitter and listen for distress calls.

I guess there is an effort underway now to make 500 KHZ an amateur frequency.

As for Island in The Sky, the BC-348 aboard the C-47 can barely be seen in a few views.  I don't think the transmitter is visible at all and in any case I don't think they were using it, lacking an operating engine with which to run it.

Only bad thing about that movie is that the C-47's had postwar USAF markings.  Don't know what radio fit they had, but I was able to see the 348.

Wayne