[Milsurplus] [ARC5] BC-458-A Questions and an ARC-2 question

[Hubert Miller]

Dave and others: thank you for this very informative and useful series of emails !

I have a front panel and gear works from an EK10 ( FuG10 ) dug up at Stalingrad. I think the  Germans lost something like 500 
planes there; mostly transports, which certainly hurt their war effort elsewhere. It is in remarkably good condition, altho the
treasure hunters always saved the front panels while hacking away the detiorated chassis itself. The dial seems to be 
permanently jammed at 5950 kHz. I do not know if Stalingrad fields actually used radio to talk with arriving transports, but
certainly Tatsinskaya airfield, 260 km distant, a supplies dispatching center, certainly did.
I never did get into the FuG10 apparatus, as it always seemed to me there were just too many bits i would never be able to 
obtain, here on this side of the pond. I still do have an EZ6 RDF receiver and the ferrite DF antenna. 
I read years ago in a Radio News article about the differences in German and Japanese aircraft comms. Japan had to deal with
much longer distances in the Pacific area, thus the somewhat higher frequency range of their HF liason radios. Which still topped
out around 10 MHz compared to our liaison equipment, 18 MHz. Japan had much better access to quartz also; thus their universal
usage of crystals in aircraft radios. 
-Hue Miller