[Milsurplus] LF in a B-17?

[Bob Wilder]

Bet there are hundreds hams out there bought their first 453 for use as a Q-5er.
Bob AF2HD

At 01:06 PM 8/27/2004 -0400, Bob Camp wrote:

>Hi
>
>Oddly enough I also used a BC-453 to copy CW on the same bands. I suspect that more than a few of them were used on B-17's for the same purpose. The one I had came by way of the RCAF and Fair radio. Darn near new in box condition.
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>Back then I found it odd that there was no matching ARC-5 series transmitter for the same band. That situation makes a bit more sense now.
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>Sure would be nice to still be able to pick up new BC-453's for $20 and the tuning knob for another $3. Time marches on ...
>
>        Take Care!
>
>                Bob Camp
>                KB8TQ
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>On Aug 27, 2004, at 11:04 AM, Mike Morrow wrote:
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>>Bob wrote:
>>
>>>I can certainly remember maritime CW in the same band well
>>>into the 1960's...
>>
>>And it was there well beyond that.  In the mid-1960s I used a BC-453 to copy
>>MF maritime CW to improve my Morse receive skills (maritime CW being much
>>more interesting than ham CW), but maritime Morse in the 420 to 520 kc range
>>was still very busy when I got my Second Class Radiotelegraph license in
>>1981.  The US Coast Guard didn't drop 500 kc guard until 1995, and the last
>>regular US coastal station Morse operation didn't cease until July, 1999.  I
>>miss it.
>>
>>I wonder when, in the US:
>>
>>(1)  The last aviation LF/MF directional (A-N) beacon shut down, and
>>(2)  The last LF (278 kc) control tower-to-aircraft operation ceased, and
>>(3)  The last 3105 / 3023.5 kc aircraft-to-control tower operation ceased.
>>
>>I have somewhere an old copy of FCC aviation regs that, IIRC, makes it
>>appear that 278 / 3023.5 kc ops may have continued in isolated instances up
>>into the very early 1960s.   I'd have loved to listen at night to 3105 /
>>3023.5 kc 50 to 60 years ago.
>>
>>73,
>>Mike / KK5F
>>
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