[ARC5] T-30 Throat Mike Use

[WA5CAB--- via ARC5]

The T-30 throat mic was replaced mid-war by the T-45 lip mic.  Probably not 
as comfortable to wear but greatly improved fidelity.  

In a message dated 04/12/2015 14:17:33 PM Central Daylight Time, 
drossetti at comcast.net writes: 
> Anyone remember the TV series "12 O'clock High"? They used throat mikes, 
> but
> at the time I didn't know what those were. Guess I figured it out, but 
> still
> wondered what they were doing to communicate with each other, what those
> things on their neck were, and how they worked. Don't believe I have ever
> seen one in real-life; just pictures.
> 
> Dave Rossetti
> 410-279-0226 (mobile)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ARC5 [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Robert 
> Eleazer
> Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2015 1:44 PM
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [ARC5] T-30 Throat Mike Use
> 
> I'm in the process of reading a book entitled, "Flying the B-26 Marauder
> Over Europe" written by a WWII B-26 navigator.  It has a lot of 
> interesting
> detail about B-26 operations and it mentions that the crew generally used
> throat mikes for intercom communications - and that resulted in some 
> amount
> of garbled communications.
> 
> He also mentions that when flying from North Africa to England, ferrying
> their airplanes to the base they would use, that he noted they had picked 
> up
> a headwind.  Radio silence had been ordered and they noted the lead 
> aircraft
> signaling them with a blinker light in Morse.  They finally got the radio
> operator to come decipher the Morse; it turned out that the lead navigator
> had noted the headwind as well and was signaling them of the fact. 
> Although
> aircrew were trained in Morse, that example shows how much they were 
> capable
> of understanding - very little.
> 
> Wayne      
> 

Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480