[ARC5] SG Keying of ARC-5 Tx

[D C _Mac_ Macdonald]

I still have one of those leg keys.  I used it in Feb 1963 at Stead AFB, NV (Reno) where I was attending USAF Aircrew Survival School.  I used it with my Gonset Twins (G-66B receiver/G-77A transmitter) on 80 CW to QSO with my newly licensed XYL (WN6DFR) back in Sacramento.  Still have the same key and same wife (now KA5BJS).



73 de Mac, K2GKK/5

USAF and FAA Retired

Oklahoma City, OK



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Sent: Monday, November 21, 2016 09:32
To: K5MYJ; Jim Falls; Kenneth G. Gordon
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Subject: Re: [ARC5] SG Keying of ARC-5 Tx


My uncle gave me his bug after the war.  He was radio operator on B-24s
flying "the hump" China/Burma/India theater of operations.

Also, in the 1930s, CW was a principle means of communication for bush
pilots in Alaska using straight key strapped or clamped to leg.
I have a book on this somewhere but can't find it at the moment or I'd cite
it.

Mike, W6MAB
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Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2016 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] SG Keying of ARC-5 Tx


> The BC-375 was a LIASON SET!. It was made for CW and AM. But most service
> was done using CW. By a RADIO OPERATOR, not a pilot flying the aircraft.
>
> The radio operators could use a bug if they wanted to but they had to
> furnish their own bug.
>
> Bob Macklin
> K5MYJ
> Seattle, Wa.


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