[ARC5] Aircraft Radio Corporation T-15, -16, -17

[AKLDGUY .]

In the Pacific Islands there were not only Allied coastwatchers but
friendly natives who
reported the movements of Japanese forces. It would have been certain death
for these
natives to be found with radios capable of communications, but ordinary
broadcast band
sets would not be incriminating.

It doesn't take much effort to scrawl a coded message into a sandy beach,
then obliterate
it when the Allied plane has passed on rendezvous. Maybe these broadcast
band ARC-5
units were used to deliver return messages to the native watchers.

73 de Neil ZL1ANM


On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:43 PM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>
>
> I can understand  the 500 KC emergency freq.
>> but the 800 to 1300?  For what purpose.
>>
>
> Unless someone can spend some time in the A.R.C.
> records in Washingtoon (and I don't know remember
> which place is holding them), we will likely never know
> with any certainty.  I've written of my theory of the need
> to communicate with units of tertiary powers still using
> 1920s radio conventions, which included these freqs.
> Also relayed some apocryphal veteran stories which were received with
> scorn.  Even if someone were to spend time in the archives,
> the answer may not be there.  We may never have anything more than
> theories.
>
> Dave S.
>
>
>
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