[ARC5] ARC5 CW Question

[David Stinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Cromwell" <wrcromwell at gmail.com>

>I think I had heard that CW wasn't used very much in the bombers 
>with any of the radios.

Not true, Bill.  I have original logs.
CW was used extensively in any aircraft large enough
to carry a Radio Operator.
Just not with the Command Sets (barring emergencies).

73 Dave AB5S














 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"
>
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