[ARC5] Ideas on Japanese circuit ?

[Tom B]

Hi Hue,

You might want to spend a few hours (days?) looking at this website.   
He is written extensively about Japanese military radio equipment.  This 
is where I found the schematic that I sent earlier.

Google is terrible about detecting the language.  I had to select 
Japanese manual and then the translation worked ok.

https://minouta17.hatenablog.com/

Tom


On 7/9/2023 12:25 AM, Hubert Miller wrote:
> BTW, i now have the 99-1, 99-2, and 99-3 sets. The 99-3 has one less tube ( two fewer tube stages ) and is kind of
> a simplified set for single place aircraft; voice A3 only. The conventional thinking and photos ( Monogram book )
> show the 99-3 receiver hanging below the instrument panel, with a couple instrument meters below the receiver.
> However the 99-2 i have, is in one cabinet, and WAS mounted below the instrument panel. This seems to have
> flummoxed the aircraft authorities. However, the 99-2 i obtained from the fellow ( God bless him ) who harvested
> it from a shot in half single seat plane near Pusan, Korea, in 1946. We were unable to further identify the aircraft.
> It did have a 3 blade prop. Which the MPs confiscated at SF CA, God knows why. That would seem to narrow it
> down to type 'Oscar' or 'Tojo' fighter, or maybe a recon version? Why a CW capable set in a single seat fighter?
> Of course, "never say never" especially applies to Japanese militaria. One reader here tells me his father saw fuel
> lines made of bamboo in Japanese planes, and empty cutouts where meters went bad and couldn't be replaced.
> -Hue Miller
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