[ARC5] Pre-ARC-5 rigs.

[AKLDGUY .]

To Mike Hanz KC4TOS and Robert Downs WA5CAB

Thanks for your replies. I guess that about closes out the topic.

73 de Neil ZL1ANM



On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Mike Hanz <aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org> wrote:

> 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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