[ARC5] ARC5 CW Question

[K5MYJ]

I was in the USAF from 1952 to 1958.

The liaison radio at that time was the ARC-8(RT-13/BC-348). I
was in SAC wings from 1954 to 1958. We had KB-29 tankers. They carried a 
radio operator and he used CW on the liaison set. The pilot and co-pilot 
operated the command set.

My Elmer in 1957 was a WWII B-17 radio operator. He was good at CW! He was a 
M/SGT and he owned a DX-100. Radio operators could use their own bug if they 
wanted. But Uncle Sam did not provide bugs.

I was in Korea in 1953. The command sets in the Far East at that time were 
ARC-3 and ARC-5 VHF.

The B-29s, C-47s, C-119s, C-45s etc also had BC-453s. The BC-453 was still 
in USAF service after 1960.

In any of the above airplanes you flew with a headset that had muffs. All 
crew members had headsets.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Cromwell" <wrcromwell at gmail.com>
To: "K5MYJ" <macklinbob at gmail.com>; <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2014 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] ARC5 CW Question


> 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"
>