[ARC5] FW: C-47 radio "Island in the Sky"

[Sandy]

Jeese!  Now you are really taxing my memory.  Better than 50 years ago I 
guess.  Anyway, I forget.  Seems like I setup a few frequencies I rag chewed 
on and kinda stuck around those.  7040, 7050 Maybe 3935 on 75 on AM.  14030 
and 14050  (didn't have an Extra ticket then)  I don't remember the BC-221 
even having a set of batteries in it as I was only one of maybe 3 people who 
even fired the transmitter up.  Had several cross country flights I went on 
in it and played with the station enroute.

73,
Sandy W5TVW

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike Morrow
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 3:07 PM
To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [ARC5] FW: C-47 radio "Island in the Sky"

Sandy wrote:

> Somewhere in the radio operators cubbyhole a BC-221 was mounted
> to get the transmitter right on frequency, but I forget exactly
> where now.  We had only 2-3 guys in the squadron that were
> familiar with the ART-13/BC-348 combo and who knew how to operate
> it.  I was one of the lucky few.

Sandy, why did you need a BC-221 with the AN/ART-13, especially if
it were the most common USAF version, the T-47A/ART-13?  The internal
calibration unit (CFI), cal book, and vernier dial B of the T-47A
should easily have been all that was needed to get within 1 kHz of
any desired frequency with greater ease and accuracy than using a
BC-221. Then, using the MONITOR-NORM switch of the AN/ARC-8, the
BC-348-* could have been netted right to the T-47A.

The frequency meter became a bit of a white elephant after the
AN/ART-13* was available.  For the USN, when the AN/ARR-15 was
incorporated with the AN/ART-13 to make the AN/ARC-25, both
receiver and transmitter could be set independently of each
other to 1 kHz accuracy.

Mike / KK5F
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