[MRCA] What is this? SCR-522

[Christopher Bowne]

I remember seeing pictures of the P-38 twin engined fighters where the SCR-522 was installed directly behind the pilot under the bubble canopy.  I suspect that whoever came up with Luke Skywalker’s Star Wars fighter design for George Lucas must have drawn inspiration from the P-38 because R2D2 was positioned in same arrangement behind just behind Luke. 

I never attempted to use the BC-624 receiver on 2 meters, just the transmitter. It put out about 8-10 watts of good sounding AM.

73 de Chris AJ1G
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> On Dec 7, 2024, at 13:45, Ray Fantini via MRCA <mrca at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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> Don’t sell that radio short! The SCR-522 is a radio with huge limitations, insensitive, the auto channel mechanism was larger than the radio and all the difficulties trying to get the multi overtone crystal to work for the front end. But all that aside it was king in the ETO and just about everywhere by the end of the war being VHF AM was where the world was going. I prefer American hardware like the ARC-1 or better yet the ARC-3 that came after, the ARC-3 stayed in service well into the sixties but the cantankerous old SCR-522 with all its problems set the standard for everything that came after.
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> Hard to Imagin anyone would attempt to do something like a P-51 for a museum without that radio.
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> Ray F/KA3EKH
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