[Milsurplus] whadiddah BC-946 go with

[Mike Hanz]

Unserviceable but Repairable wrote:

>kk5f wrote:
>
>> Also, I believe that the BC-946 BCB receiver was a rearly used item.
>
>My belief too.  
>But why did the AAF order 'em?  To see where our carriers were maybe?
>

Good question...Gordon White wrote the answer to this quite a while 
back.  It was for the ZB, and I have some photos of a B-29 on the web 
page showing the ZB antenna - 
http://members.cox.net/aaf-radio-2/Enola_avionics_narrative.htm.  Of 
course, being the Signal Corps, they couldn't call it the ZB, so they 
relabled it the ARR-1.   :-)

It was only used in the Pacific theater, as far as I know.  The YGs were 
set up on islands like Tinian, Guam, etc. to provide an alternative to 
conventional navigation receivers.  Just insurance.

73,
Mike