[ARC5] Pre-ARC-5 rigs.

[WA5CAB--- via ARC5]

OK.  That (the antenna) is probably what I vaguely remembered.

I certainly can't say it was impossible that she might have gotten 
permission to carry an SCR-183.  But my take, considering the press and politics of 
the day, is that if she had it would have leaked out.  And if nothing else, 
the anti-military and anti-Roosevelt press of the day, including Lindberg, 
would have made a big deal of it.  I have never heard of anything of the sort 
being mentioned, which I am inclined to take as evidence that whatever 
radios she had, they were something that anyone with enough money could walk in 
and buy.  Besides which, the SCR-183 wasn't anything new by 1937.  So unless 
evidence to the contrary surfaces, I'll stick with my original opinion.

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480

In a message dated 08/03/2014 18:51:50 PM Central Daylight Time, 
neilb0627 at gmail.com writes: 
> From what I remember, it's claimed she decided to not take a reel-out, 
> reel-in trailing wire antenna due to weight considerations. There are also 
> claims that she jettisoned that antenna literally during the take-off from 
> Lae.
>  
> 
> 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?
>> 
> 
> 
>