[ARC5] Pre-ARC-5 rigs.

[Mike Hanz]

Everything is possible, none so far provable despite a huge number of 
people trying on a thousand theories.  You are more than welcome to 
conjecture and ask questions that have no documented answer, but it 
seems doomed to a state of ambivalence.  Some folks enjoy that.

73,
Mike KC4TOS

On 8/3/2014 7:51 PM, AKLDGUY . wrote:
> As to military sets, is it possible that a waiver was granted for her, on
> the basis that her flight was for scientific purposes? W.E. and/or the
> military may have been keen to test and prove their radio on very long
> flights over the ocean.
>
> 73 de Neil ZL1ANM
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:32 AM, WA5CAB--- via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Neil,
>>
>> I haven't really been interested enough in the Earhart fiasco to remember
>> most of what I've read about it.  But I didn't think there was any question
>> about what radios she carried other than if I recall correctly some
>> speculation that she might have dumped some of it.  But in any case, the
>> SCR-183 and
>> SCR-283 were at the time current US military sets.  And not in plentiful
>> supply.  Although I won't go so far as to say that no one could or would
>> have
>> broken the rules, it's highly unlikely that she could have gotten her hands
>> on whichever of the two would have worked in her airplane..
>>
>> Robert Downs - Houston
>> wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
>> MVPA 9480
>>
>> In a message dated 08/03/2014 18:09:16 PM Central Daylight Time,
>> neilb0627 at gmail.com writes:
>>> Yes I see that. OK, I was wrong about the origin of the SCR-183/283. I
>>> had
>>> assumed that because a coil set in my possession was made by W.E. that
>>> that
>>> company was the original designer/builder. I was wrong, but that doesn't
>>> necessarily negate my question about whether Earhart carried a W.E.
>>> SCR-183/283 set, does it? Or does it?
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