[MRCA] WTB BC-459-A *Update*

[Mike Morrow]

If it has not been ham-hacked, then you have a very very nice
T-412/ART-13B.  These were converted from units that were earlier
ATC, ATC-1, T-47/ART-13, or T-47A/ART-13 units.  Yours appears
to have been converted from the T-47A/ART-13...making your unit
the very best version of the T-412/ART-13B.

A T-412 was too late to be on a B-29...maybe the earlier transmitter
was.  Certainly it could have been on an early B-36.

The calibration book that should be used with your T-412 is the
one for the T-47A/ART-13 (AN/ART-13A).

It weighs nothing like 100 lb.  It is a mere 70 lb cream puff.  :-)

If yours has any crystals in the CDA-T oscillator unit, I'd
be very interested in what the frequencies are.

Great find...that best version of the last model of the Collins
17H-2 that was used by the US military.  (However, it was made
by Stewart-Warner...just as good.)

Mike / KK5F

-----Original Message----
 
    I went to the MIT Flea today in
      Cambridge.  I help my ham neighbor who sells at  fleas.  I try to
      sell a few things too.

      Anyway, I was feeling lucky today and thought maybe I'd find a
      BC-459 even though there usually isn't a lot of radio stuff there.

      I didn't find any ARC-5s but I did come home with this.  Not even
      close to an ARC-5.  I have no idea why I did it.  I don't have the
      room nor a power supply for it but I just couldn't just see it sit
      there without a home.  It is in "As cut out of the B-29 before the
      plane was shot up for target practice condition.