[Milsurplus] PBY radio

[Hue Miller]

Meir, interesting about the AT-12 being a commercial product.

It still seems to me that as long as Canada was receiving the

whole aircraft from the USA, the USN GFE equipment could have

been supplied with it. Or- were the Canadian PBY Canada-built?
I suppose I can look that up later today.

Re the post GO-9/RU setup in the PBY, I "think" I have identified

these radio position varieties, from photos or interviews:

GO + 2 RU  ( + possibly also ATB elsewhere)

GO + RU + ARB  ( + likely or absolutely ATB elsewhere )

GO + RAX ?? How common? Never seen an actual photo but HAVE

seen PBM photo with this setup - on cover of a 1945 CQ magazine.

ATC + BC-348

ATC + RAX  

I am suggesting the RAX use with ATC was a very limited and 

possibly experimental use. Yes the BC-348 was Army, and so

was the SCR-300 and SCR-508 and these and possibly more

were in Navy standard use. Apparently some PBY ASW patrol

planes had their GO + RAX equipment changed out for the

Army  BC-348 and newer ATC transmitter from 1943. I was told

this latter info by Chet Wisner who flew as radio op in a 

Carribean ASW patrol plane. I have a photo of him using a type

writer in that same plane but unfortunately the photo shows

none of the radio equipment. 

I think I got the idea that the ATC + RAX was a very limited

test setup from reading a history of communications in the

USCG where there is a photo (possibly THE ONE and same

photo. ) -Hue Miller