[ARC5] Command Sets for Longer Range?

[MARK DORNEY]

My mistake. The ATB was made by RCA, like the ARB. Bendix made the ATD (which the Collins ART-13 transmitter also beat out,  along with the RCA ATB). 

73
Mark D. 
WW2RDO

“In matters of style, float with the current. In matters of Principle, stand like a rock. “.   -   Thomas Jefferson 

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> On Dec 30, 2023, at 5:48 PM, MARK DORNEY <mkdorney at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> Trailing wire antennas were almost exclusively reserved for multi engined patrol  bombers like the B-17 and B-24. Carrier borne aircraft like the Hellcat, Dauntless SBD, Curtiss Helldiver, TBD Devastator,TBM Avenger and F4U Corsair didn’t have them.  I don’t know who told you about some aircraft loosing a trailing wire antenna upon landing on a carrier, but it didn’t happen during WW2. And fighters like the Hellcat and the Corsair had more than adequate legs to perform the patrol and fleet CAP missions, especially when on the rare occasion drop tanks were employed. Patrol aircraft like the SBD, Helldiver and Avenger did have longer legs (allowing the aircraft to remain on station longer)and, with multiple crewmen to allow the pilot to concentrate on flying and fighting the aircraft, were better suited for observation and long range patrol. 
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> And while radios like the ART-13 and ARB did have long range communications capability (a thousand miles or more ),remember that most naval air actions took place when opposing forces were only separated by hundreds of miles. While not optimal, fighter radios like the RU/GF series, the ARA/ATA series and the ARC-5 series were adequate enough to get the patrol job done 
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> 
> Mark D. 
> WW2RDO
> 
> “In matters of style, float with the current. In matters of Principle, stand like a rock. “.   -   Thomas Jefferson 
> 
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>> On Dec 30, 2023, at 3:16 PM, Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The F6F used for 'scout' had to be just around island areas, right? I mean, these aircraft did not have long range 
>> radio. For ASW search and for locating enemy battle groups, you would need longer range HF. The TBF/ TBM was
>> used for both attack bomber and long range patrols. A WWII carrier flyer years ago told me he/ they "never used HF 
>> except to practice CW", but maybe he never went out on the longer searches. ( I recall another flyer telling me about
>> how flyers forgot to reel in the trailing wire and it would rip off on landing. I wish now i had asked more questions 
>> and gotten actual dates / locations where possible. ) 
>> I mentioned here that this past year i bought an ARC-5 transmitter, i think the 5 - 7, with a condition tag attached;
>> the tag said "for F6F". This was an official inventory tag, not someone's thought. 
>> 
>> This same flyer, who was on the 'Gambier Bay' until it was sunk, told me working from a Philippine base, one of the
>> pilots had to flight check-out a TBM that had been repaired. For this routine flight, he offered a cook a chance to go
>> up in a plane, get a little thrill, something different. Unfortunately during the flight, one of the wings came off. There 
>> were a whole lot of accidents. It came to me just now, the radio - gunner who told me this was Donald R. Blaney of 
>> Seattle, gone now i am certain.
>> -Hue Miller 
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