[ARC5] Very Versatile Equipment

[Christopher Bowne]

The guy who told me it was done said that it was used for comms with the tower with the plane close in to the field.  Perhaps, with their normal radio comms out, there was some message perhaps re injured on board that they needed to pass before landing.

Would be interesting to see the range of a BC-221 coupled to a full sized dipole antenna.  Of course you would want to have some sort of tuned  coupling network to minimize radiating harmonics, which were by design, fairly strong relative to the fundamental frequency n the output.

On Thursday, May 22, 2014 4:45 PM, Jay Coward <jcoward5452 at aol.com> wrote:
 


Hook a longwire up to it and plug in the phones and you can hear lots of stuff on a good night.
Jay



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From: J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com>
To: Chris Bowne <aj1g at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: arc5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>; Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>
Sent: Thu, May 22, 2014 11:41 am
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Very Versatile Equipment


It would be possible. The BC-221 puts out a decent signal. BTW, the BC-221 looks roughly like a British WS-18 at a quick glance from
a distance. The WS-18 is not as common though. -John ================== > I have heard that B17 radio ops would sometimes tap the HF antenna lead on
> a BC-221 output terminal to send CW to the tower on final or to close in
> other aircraft if their other HF radio transmitters were OOC.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On May 22, 2014, at 8:14, "Robert  Eleazer" <releazer at earthlink.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> The other day I was watching a TV show about the Philippines in WWII.
>>
>> They had an interview with a US agent dropped into the islands to gather
>> intelligence.  He said "It was just me and my radio."  I watched for any
>> details of the radio used, and sure enough, they had a little
>> re-enactment.  It involved a hand crank generator - and two BC-221's!
>>
>> I had no idea those frequency meters were so versatile!
>>
>> Wayne
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