[ARC5] More USS Macon ZRS-5 Information, Including Radio Gear

[Mike Morrow]

Nick cited:

> http://www.moffettfieldmuseum.org/photos/showimg.php?file=/Macon/Interior/macon_inside11.jpg

which shows another Macon radio installation.  This almost looks like a shipboard
radio installation, though I'm unfamiliar with the equipment shown.  The interior
images at this cite appear to have been made before the Macon was completed.

There's a fantastic 20 minute video at

  http://oceanslive.gso.uri.edu/past-events-video-gallery#
  then select the "Mission to find the dirigible Macon" image.

This has many minutes of actual filming of F9C Sparrowhawk launches and recoveries
from the Macon.  In addition, there are some radio shots at minute 13:10 of what I
believe is a 1934 RU-2/GP or RU-3/GP-1.  At minute 13:35 there's a better shot of the
radio installation in service that Nick cited above, along with the radioman who was
one of the two casualties of the loss of Macon in February 1935.

There's no certainty that the RU-2/GP or RU-3/GP-1 installation shown in the above film
was the one aboard the Macon, but it does appear from the image surroundings that it is
from some airship.  Perhaps the 1933 under-construction installation of what I theorize
was an RU-2/GM at

 http://www.moffettfieldmuseum.org/photos/showimg.php?file=/Macon/Interior/macon_inside11.jpg

had been replaced by a RU-3/GP-1 by early 1935.  The Macon was, after all, a unique and
important ship during its short history.  It likely got the best of whatever was
available.

73,
Mike / KK5F