[Milsurplus] Fwd: Re: [BC-348_BC-224] RE: BC-348 comment

[Meir WF2U]

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From: "Meir WF2U wf2u at ws19ops.com [BC-348_BC-224]" <BC-348_BC-224 at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: August 12, 2016 1:12:49 PM EDT
To: BC-348_BC-224 at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [BC-348_BC-224] RE: [Milsurplus] BC-348 comment

Mark and All,

I can confirm exactly the same from personal experience. 
Just to add, that in the majority of the mentioned aircraft the transmitter was the Russian equivalent of the ART-13, called RSB-70 by the old nomenclature, later renamed by the new Soviet military nomenclature standard, to R-807. The RSB-70/R-807 was in production from 1947 to the early 1980's. 
My R-807 is dated 1968 and is mounted on an ART-13 shock mount with perfect fit. All the original Canon plugs that are used with the ART-13 fit the R-807, except the plug that mates with the dynamotor output connector, as the internal shell diameter is about 1/100 inch larger than the one on the Russian dynamotor. I need to sand down the Cannon shell a bit to fit, in the meantime I can use  the DY-17A dynamotor with the R-807.

73, Meir WF2U
Landrum, SC

On August 12, 2016 10:57:13 AM EDT, "Irondog irondog at charter.net [BC-348_BC-224]" <BC-348_BC-224 at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>I can confirm that the USSR used CW exclusively for air to ground comm 
>for transport and strategic aircraft through 1973.
>
>The Soviet KRUG radio direction net was also, of course, all CW.
>
>NavAir was my specialty and my target ground stations were RNNV (most 
>active), UAME, UAQB, and a host of others lost to memory.
>
>The target aircraft had call signs that could be decoded in real time, 
>so you knew if your target was a TU-95, TU-22, or TU-16 bomber or a
>Crud 
>or Camel transport plane.
>
>We radio direction vectored all bombers using a AN/FLR-9 antenna
>network 
>with stations at Lakenheath, Augsburg, Karamursel, and Brindisi.
>
>The Soviets operated their NAVAIR net at about 4.5 mHz as I recall.  
>Non-NAVAIR networks operated from about 1.9 mHz up to about 5.0 mHz or 
>thereabouts.
>
>The airborne CW operators were all very very skilled (unlike some of
>the 
>ground networks sending weather and crypto).  The airborne guys were on
>
>and off the air in a professional manner.
>
>The paradox of US designed receivers in targeted USSR aircraft was 
>unknown to us in those days.  I suspect that many of the PVO nets and 
>other military nets used BC-348 variants.
>
>We, on the other hand, had all R-390's
>
>Some day I hope my efforts will result in my BC-348 coming to life.
>
>v/r
>
>Mark
>
>K7MBA
>
>
>On 8/11/2016 6:21 PM, Hubert Miller kargo_cult at msn.com [BC-348_BC-224] 
>wrote:
>>
>> Does that mean the USSR actually used CW and AM for air-ground 
>> communications almost into the 1990s, basically to the end of the
>USSR ?
>>
>> -Hue
>>
>> >From: Meir WF2U [mailto:wf2u at ws19ops.com]
>>
>> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] BC-348 comment
>>
>> >Hue and All,
>>
>> According to Russian documentation, the Russian variant of the
>BC-348, 
>> the УС-9 (US-9) went into mass production in 1948 in Plant 368 
>> (Frunze). Production later was done in several other plants as well, 
>> until 1980. From 1980 to 1987 the УС-9 was manufactured in small 
>> numbers, for special orders. Total production was more than 50,000.
>>
>> 73, Meir WF2U
>>
>> Landrum, SC
>>
>> 

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