[ARC5] SCR-287 (BC-375 & BC-348) WW II Operational Question

[zakariya.abu at yandex.com]

Hue,

That's a very interesting observation regarding the TBM comms. Some time 
ago I researched the comm setup of the infamous Flight 19 exercise from 
NAS Ft. Lauderdale, FL, on December 5, 1945, which went (and still is) 
missing. The story is elaborated at 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_19. From what I managed to 
establish is that all five a/c of that doomed Flight were fitted with 
the ATC plus ARB combo preset to 4805 kHz, plus the aux R-26/ARC-5 or 
ARA. Additionally, they were also fitted with the VHF AM sets, but the 
documents on the case mentioned voice comms on HF, not on VHF. That 
being said, it can be concluded that the range HF voice comms was 
limited on that very day, and ultimately lost when the weather 
deteriorated.

73,

Jan SP5XZG


W dniu 02.10.2025 o 21:15, Hubert Miller pisze:
> Decades back i talked to a Seattle fellow who was radio gunner on TBM 
> flying off Gambier Bay. He told me CW ( at least in this size aircraft ) 
> was only used for 'CW practice'. The pilot used voice VHF otherwise. He  
> also told me about listening to Tokyo Rose on the parked plane's ARB 
> receiver.
> -Hue Miller