[Milsurplus] LF in a B-17?

[Bob Camp]

Hi

If most of the ART-13's with low frequency oscillators are Navy, then 
what's the odds that the main use for LF in the air was to talk to 
ships? Certainly there was significant LF marine traffic at the time. 
In the case that you are flying over a *lot* of water being able to 
talk to ships (as in rescue) might be worth the weight of the extra 
gear.

Just a thought, I have absolutely no data to back it up at all .....

	Enjoy!

		Bob Camp
		KB8TQ

On Aug 24, 2004, at 12:19 AM, Scott Johnson wrote:

> I think, after pondering it for a while, that in the ETO there would 
> have
> been little use for LF except for navigation rx's, whereas in the 
> pacific,
> it was useful for longer haul comms.This might explain why most of the
> ART-13's I have seen with LF osc.'s were Navy versions. The B-29 also 
> had a
> trailing wire reeler on the aft part of the belly.
> Scott
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>> he beacons are in the 200-500 KHz band.  Top of the band might be 400 
>> KHz
> now.
>>
>> Dick
>>
>> Hue Miller wrote:
>>>
>>> Just a small data point: i read a booklet which listed radio 
>>> frequencies
> for
>>> some East and South Pacific airfields 1945. I should say, a gov't
> publication,
>>> something like "Radio Aids...."   I do not recall any LF comm freqs, 
>>> in
> LF only
>>> the beacon frequencies were given.  This list had CBI and some 
>>> Pacific
> stations,
>>> i remember Munda airfield was there, for example.  Had HF and VHF 
>>> info
> and
>>> some kind of radar info also, sorry don't recall.
>>> -Hue Miller
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