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

[Jonathan Jesse]

All good info Mike Including the receiver stuff.  Thanks.
The gent that I got it from said that he had personally removed it from 
the B-29 but he could have been mistaken.  He said that it was working 
when removed and hasn't been powered on since.  Plugs U-7 & U-8 have 
their mating connectors plugged in.  Each has a few inches of original 
cut wires attached to the connector.  So this would lead me to believe 
that it hasn't been "ham-hacked". Of course actually looking inside 
would be the sure way to know.

Is checking the crystals in the crystal oscillator as simple as removing 
the transmitter top cover and then the top cover of the oscillator?

Thanks,
Jon
WS1K


On 10/18/2015 5:39 PM, Mike Morrow wrote:
> 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.
>