[Milsurplus] [ARC5] B-26 Radio Op Position

Sat Mar 16 17:11:30 EDT 2019

And to add just a bit to the great info Mike has provided, here is a shot
of how it looked last July (assuming I don't mess up the attachment). I
would get it is further along, of course.

More photos available in the military surplus section of AMfone:

http://amfone.net/Amforum/index.php?topic=44734.0

On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 10:20 AM Michael Hanz <aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org>
wrote:

> On 3/16/2019 8:35 AM, Christopher Bowne wrote:
>
> There used to be a great picture on the Air & Space Museum web Site of the
> Flak Bait radio op position.  Mike, how is the Flak Bait restoration going
> down there? Last time I was down there a couple of years ago things were
> just getting started.
>
>
> It's going slowly, but carefully, Chris.  After the war it was flown in
> Europe for a time before being transferred to the NASM rolls, dismantled,
> and shipped back to the Silver Hill facilty.  The exhibit in the downtown
> museum was extracted from that, and was on the second floor for a number of
> years before being sent to Udvar-Hazy for preservation and reassembly.
> There are the usual mysteries caused by disparities between the Erection &
> Maintenance manual configuration and current condition.
>
> Here is a photo of the radio rack area back in September of last year.
> Note the AN/ARN-7 mount under the location of the command receivers, and
> the AN/ARN-7 BK-22 relay panel "rats nest" behind where the BC-348 goes.
> The M-299 microphone adapter for the SCR-522 is at the very bottom, to the
> left of the PE-86 dynamotor used for the BC-347 interphone amplifier, which
> is suspended just above the M-299.  The location of the RC-43 Marker Beacon
> receiver, which the "standard installation" shows being installed where the
> M-299 is now located, is still TBD.
>
>
>
>  Was not aware that Breck was involved with putting the FB display
> together.
>
>
> I didn't mean to imply that.  His web page is about his *own* version of
> the Flak Bait radio operators position, with continuous additions and
> redesigns to fit the location in his basement.  He has numerous views of
> the NASM exhibit that he took to make sure his was as close as possible,
> given certain constraints.  Like all of us, things like this seem to grow
> of their own life after a while.  Breck, please note the location of the
> AN/ARN-7 above, right behind that mysterious zinc chromate painted cross
> bracket, which may have been installed because the weight of equipment
> seems getting a bit high for those four tall spindly rack legs....
>
> On my QRZ page is a picture of my command set 2 transmitter and BC-348
> system that I built installed in a plywood case with upper shelf section
> for the modulator transmitters and antenna relay.  There is a transmitter
> control box inside the lower case to the left of the 348, and also a
> command set receiver control box and cabling to use 2 command receivers in
> there instead of the 348.  All the interconnected cabling is there so the
> whole shebang can be transported for demos and field day type setups, just
> supply 24V DC power antenna mic key and headsets or speakers.  I tried to
> emulate the B-26 layout with the modulator and transmitters directly above
> the 348.
>
>
> Nice job!  Looks ideal to schlep these heavy radios around for display.  I
> was surprised when K4CHE told me that he had run across several other *Flak
> Bait* emulations in his research, and had photos of some interesting
> variations that other folks had made.
>
> - Mike  KC4TOS
>
> On Mar 16, 2019, at 08:04, Mark K3MSB <mark.k3msb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Mike!    That's the site I remember!
>
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 7:44 AM Michael Hanz <aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org>
> wrote:
>
>> The world's most renown expert on the B-26 radio position is our own
>> Breck Smith.  Go here to see the details:
>> http://k4che.com/Flak%20Bait/FlakIndex/Flakbaitindex.htm
>>
>> -Mike  KC4TOS
>>
>> On 3/16/2019 7:35 AM, Mark K3MSB wrote:
>> > Gents
>> >
>> > It looks like I'll be doing another display for Ham Radio in May,  and
>> > of course the topic will be Mil Radios.
>> >
>> > I think space requirements will be limited and I was thinking of
>> > bringing the ARC-5 radios and BC-348 used in a B-26 installation.
>> > I'm not sure yet, as I'm awaiting info on space and tables etc.
>> >
>> > I once saw a nice photo of the radio op position in a B-26 but I can
>> > no longer find it on-line;  there's a grainy copy on Pinterest, but
>> > the one I saw was a nicer photo.
>> >
>> > Any help?
>> >
>> > 73 Mark K3MSB
>>
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