[ARC5] BC-1206 Antenna

[Mike Everette]

I have a 1943 pilot's manual for the P-47D Thunderbolt which indicates that the BC-1206, aka (acording to the manual) "the Detrola," may have been permanently installed in that aircraft.  At that point in the war, the P-47 would probably have carried the SCR-522 as the comm radio; or perhaps still the SCR-274N.

73

Mike
W4DSE

--- On Sat, 11/24/12, Robert  Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Robert  Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [ARC5] BC-1206 Antenna
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Saturday, November 24, 2012, 1:34 PM
> The BC-1206 typically used a long
> wire antenna that ran from the cockpit back to the top of
> the vertical tail of the airplane.  No doubt the
> antenna wire was insulated from the tail structure by the
> usual means
> 
> For the P-51D and K there was a pulley arrangement that
> allowed the wire to go through a hole in the canopy when it
> was slid back and forth.  The P-80A and P-80B had a
> similar antenna arrangement.
> 
> It appears that the BC-1206 was used only on fighters that
> had been fitted with SCR-522 or ARC-3 and thus lacked the LF
> receiver provided by the BC-452 of the SCR-274-N.  In
> at least some cases the set was considered to be temporary
> installation intended to facilitate ferrying of aircraft.
> 
> After WWII many P-51's fitted with ARC-3 had the BC-453
> installed atop the ARC-3 so that it sat very obviously high
> up in the bubble canopy and the BC-1206 was deleted. 
> 
> Wayne  
> 
> 
> 
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