[Milsurplus] Ya got ur BC-348 in a Martin flying boat

[jay.coward at avagotech.com]

A good friend of the family flew PBM's and was kind enough to reprint for me the radio equipment manual.I don't have the numbers handy at the moment.But,from the looks of all the drawings,there was a spare piece of gear for every piece of gear!Even the galley had shelves full of spare electroncs.
 Makes me want to drool...
 Jay

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From: milsurplus-bounces+jay_coward=agilent.com at mailman.qth.net [mailto:milsurplus-bounces+jay_coward=agilent.com at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Marty Reynolds
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 8:43 AM
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Subject: [Milsurplus] Ya got ur BC-348 in a Martin flying boat

...to the tune of "dead skunk in the middle of the road"

Met a really neat man at Charlotte AWA Friday 'n Saturday.  80 yr old,
full of vigor & smiles, back in business after 10 yr.s off, and a ham
since '46.  John something.

Sed he served late '44 thru 7/45 as a 17-yr-old radio op in a PBM Mariner
in Pacific.  The one with gull wings that looked newer than PBY but
wasn't.  It had an ART-13 & a BC-348.

Not a misprint.

Sed he got a ham ticket on discharge & his 1st rx was same as svc. rx.  A
BC-348.

Told a lot about PBM which was never an amphibian.  IE, had to have a
wheeled dolly tucked under to pull up ramp - a job for the "ordinance men"
& not the scrawny radio op.

I got a book on the PBYs that shows about all with loop DF antennas.
Except a real late one that has a 'football.'  Oh boy, say I, a DZ
install.  Nope, next page shows a SCR-269.  No kiddin.

Green machines were leaking into the Navy everywhere in '45.  Like SCR-608s
on LSTs, BC-1000s to gyrenes, etc.

But PBY book did show ASB yagis in lotsa fotos.  Another book, "Black Cats
of Pacific" sed 2 PBY4a amphibians fresh from San Diego came in right after
the Midway 30 were launched to find incoming JA force.  This pair went
out cold & found the supply & personell convoy apparrently right
away & scored several hits on big ships with just-loaded bombs.  This
was 6/42 & maybe 1st ever airborn radar 'win.'  Take note aw288.

I think I wrote that once

   Marty

PS... military electronics div'n of judged entrants was W2CQH's TS-35
      bouncing 9gig x-band off far wall to TS-148 in next space

      Should have had a tag, "danger, klystrons in use"
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