[Milsurplus] Re B-29 HF Radios

David Ross [email protected]
Sun, 05 May 2002 17:55:48 -0700


John & the gang -

John Young wrote:
> 
> The standard HF during early missions to Japan was the BC-348 and T47/ART-13.  See the Soviet copy of the B-29 (TU-4) which had exact copies of these HF units based on three B-29's which landed in Soviet territory.
> 

  I have seen BC-348s with cyrillic legends on the front panel, and
always took these to be Lend-Lease items of U.S. origin.

  Did the russians actually build their own ART-13s???

73
Dave Ross    N7EPI    [email protected]