[ARC5] Broadcast band Transmitters

[Robert Eleazer]

The simplest explanation is the bureaucratic one.  US had equipment like the BC-342 and BC-344 covering the LW, MW, and HF range.  So they figured the airplanes would need that coverage, too.

Remember, this was the bureaucracy that decades later required Atlas ICBM's to carry "Cut Here for Rescue" markings, simply because the airplanes had such markings, even though the circumstances under which people would become trapped in a crashed ICBM were at best undefined and at worst absurd.

Now, a question:   Did the BC-375 have the capability to cover the LW and MW frequencies?  In my 1973 Fair Radio catalog I note that the NOS BC-223 transmitters they were selling for $19.95 only came with tuning units for 2MHZ to 3 MHZ, 3MHZ to 4.5 MHZ, and 4.5MHZ to 5.2 MHZ.