[ARC5] Very Versatile Equipment

[J. Forster]

Well, if the normal Tx was an ARC-5, there would be a fairly high Q tunede
circuit formed by the antenna C and the Roll-a-ductor L. The BC-221 would
excite that.

-John

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> 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
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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