[Milsurplus] Question ( RBS; submarine )

[Hubert Miller]

Is this really correct? I am not a subject matter expert, but it looks like the existing evidence is that the setup included RBS and

never a RBO, and that the RAK-RAL were not replaced by RBS receivers. 

Perhaps the RBS was carried as a spare HF receiver, without the bulk of the RAL and its power supply. ( There would be no need

on the sub for the large RBS supply with its audio power amp; the smaller RBM supply would suffice. However when i was there,

i didn’t think about the power supply locations. Sensory overload, and my photos disappeared. )

 

This page has a severely cropped photo of the Bowfin radio room. Looks like 3 of RAK-RAL types, with one RBS,

and TCS at left, parallel to viewing vector. No sign of power supplies.  

As i recall, the receiver in something like a day room or lounge elsewhere had some kind of medium-quality Hallicrafters

shortwave radio. No idea when that was added.

-H 

 

>Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Question ( RBS; submarine )

 

Hi Nick, 

As far as we know, the radio room is the same as it was on the COD's last patrol in 1945, but your info on the contract dates would seem to dispute this.

I'll have to do some checking/investigation on the URR-13s.  Same for the switch boxes.

Maybe they were added in 1951 ?

Our deck logs, (not ship's logs) are incomplete but that is where we would find out when the 13s were installed.

I'll have to check at home for COD's old photos WW2 photos, (most of which I got from the National Archives and some from some former COD crewmen).

I just happen to have *my* pictures and videos of the COD and radio room here on my work computer.

The link below may interest some.

It details WW2 submarine radio operations.

It was written by Robert Straub, KC2AIO, a former WW2 Navy Submarine Radio Operator.

http://ka8vit.com/subops/

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