[ARC5] ARC5 CW Question

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi Bob,

Some of us key with our left foot <evil grin>. I think I had heard that 
CW wasn't used very much in the bombers with any of the radios. I wasn't 
there so I can't testify. But I have never heard anybody testify about 
the peace and tranquillity inside any of those warbirds. I was on a work 
detail on the flight line somewhere in the Philippines (I don't remember 
which airfield) when a large, single engine, prop aircraft with at least 
two seats came in. The pilot waited, idling, while the messenger ran 
inside the terminal (a dumpy shack) and returned. Even idling there was 
no way to hear a clacking relay in a radio. That is the closest I have 
been to any aircraft like that. Helicopters were not especially quiet 
either, though.

73,

Bill  KU8H


On 06/22/2014 03:14 PM, K5MYJ wrote:
> Arc-5s were not used for CW in the bombers like the B-17 and B-24. The 
> BC-375 was!
>
> Do you know where the CW key was in a WWII fighter? By the pilots 
> RIGHT ELBOW! Not a very good place for sending CW.
>
> And the pilot of a WWII fighter would not hear the relays clacking!
>
> The CW mode was usually used to get a DF STEER.
>
> Bob Macklin
> K5MYJ
> Seattle, Wa.
> "Real Radios Glow In The Dark"