[ARC5] Talking to Airplanes From the Ground (more on AN/TRC-2)

[Robert Downs]

AN/TRC-2 actually had two radios.  One was BC-1306, which covered 3.8 to 6.5
MC.  The other was RT-12/TRC-2, which covered 2.0-3.4 MC.  Why the gap in
coverage, I have no idea.  In any case, it was filled in when the AN/TRC-2
was effectively replaced by one of the variants of AN/GRC-9.  But although
development of the GRC-9 probably started before VJ Day, the GRC-9 wasn't in
production until 1946.

Anyway, I would guess that the radio that you had would have been the RT-12.

And I think that the power supplies that you are referring to are
PP-39/TRC-2 and PP-39A/TRC-2.  Which are vibrator supplies that run the
receiver in either radio. 

Robert Downs


-----Original Message-----
From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of Hubert Miller
Sent: Sunday, August 1, 2021 23:15
To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Talking to Airplanes From the Ground

I had no idea that many BC-1306 were produced. I thought it would be much
less.
I still feel bad about that first TRC-2 I owned, and lost. But at least I
still have one 
now. I also have both versions of the PP-239 ( probably wrong, and I don't
remember
the correct number right now. )

...

-Hue Miller 
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