[ARC5] Fwd: 500 KHZ Emergency Frequency

[Clare Owens]

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From: Clare Owens <clare.owens at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:38 AM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] 500 KHZ Emergency Frequency
To: Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>


You can clearly see part of the BC-375 transmitter.  The whine of the
dynamotor is clearly heard although his method of starting/stopping is was
a little odd as I recall (knife switch?).  Part of the story revolves
around the plane's battery going dead - the dyno gets slower, slower and
stops.  As I also recall the transmitter was cabled, unlike the '375 in The
High and the Mighty, another John Wayne film.

Clare


On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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