[ARC5] ARC5 CW Question

[Mike Hanz]

Has everyone forgotten that you had to use headphones to operate this 
equipment in flight?  The clacking, even in a quiet ham shack, isn't 
particularly onerous unless you're trying to use your loudspeaker 
instead of headphones.  Get a pair of comfortable chamois earpads and 
enjoy the ambiance, for goodness sake...heh, heh...:-)

On 6/22/2014 3:56 PM, Bill Cromwell wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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