[Milsurplus] Re: [ARC5] What did they talk to ??

[Bob Wilder]

Have put the question to a WW2 B-17 driver.  Asked the following:
A question came up about the ARC-5 sets, SCR-522 and HF communications 
while over Germany.  I always thought primary strike reports were sent on 
CW using the BC-375/BC-348. Am I correct?  Also the question was asked 
about the max range of the SCR-522 on VHF.  Again I had thought it would be 
very short and usually used for air traffic control around the 
field.  Please comment



At 07:45 PM 5/2/2005 -0400, J. Forster wrote:

>David Stinson wrote:
>
>So, IMHO, the answer to the question: "What did they use?" is: "Whatever they
>could get to work."
>
>
>I must confess to considerable surprise at the answers to this question. I
>figured there would have been a very few high power HF stations with fair 
>sized
>antennas for long range Liaison communications, and lower powered VHF stations
>at the airfields used for local traffic control, but that does not seem to be
>the consensus at all.
>
>Does anyone know the reliable range of the SCR-522 ? I would have guessed 
>under
>a couple of hundred miles, but I'm now pretty puzzled. Were bombers over 
>Germany
>out of communication range (radio silence not withstanding) ? Seems unlikely.
>
>Thanks,
>-John
>
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