[ARC5] Saddle Up Boys!

[Jay Coward]

Squadron Signals publication on the F4F Wildcat has excellent photos of the RU/GF installation. It was not accessible to the pilot, but within the fuselage. Rx and Tx face each other so plug in coils easily changed by radio tech guy through a removable panel.
 Jay


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>
To: arc5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sat, Apr 19, 2014 5:25 pm
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Saddle Up Boys!


A friend of mine told me that he bought a Wildcat after WWII.  Based on his 
description it must have been a Eastern Aircraft version, the FM-2, with an 
R-1820 rather than the F4F or FM-1 with the R-1830 engine.

It must have had an RU/GF installation.  He said it had a radio in which you had 
to swap out the coils.  It likely was an airplane retained for training in the 
US during the war and it seems to have been common for the RF/GU and SCR-183/283 
to be used in those types and even in experimental aircraft.  I guess their 
radio needs were modest and the later sets were reserved for combat aircraft.

I always meant to ask him if he had to swap out the coil sets in flight but he 
passed away a little while back.

Wayne   
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