[CQ-Contest] [TowerTalk] 1942 aircraft radio question

[Mark Robinson]

http://www.military.cz/usa/air/war/transport/c53/c53_en.htm


Good cockpit instrument panel pics. Do you have a picture of the tag that 
was found


Mark N1UK G3ZZM


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> an RDF (radio direction finder) possibly
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>> Got this from a local kid who has visited here... anyone have an idea of
>> what it is off of?
>>
>> <quote>
>> I have a question for you.  While walking around the site of the 1942
>> plane crash near Garnet Peak on the south end of town, someone picked up
>> an oval shaped tag, put it in some solvent, and found that it read
>> "THRES SENS" on one side and "LOOP GAIN" on the other.  I would assume
>> this would be off some part of the plane's radio.  Do you have any idea
>> what "THRES SENS" means or can you confirm it could be off the radio?
>> <quote>
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>> from the web page: http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/1942_1.html
>> I can give you the usaaf serial numbers:
>>
>> 42-6455/6504 Douglas C-53-DO
>> c/n 4907/4956
>> 6463 (c/n 4915) crashed Oct 10, 1942 east of Garnet Peak, Peru, MA.
>>
>> And it was big news at the time:
>> http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00D11F63A58167B93C5A81783D8
>> 5F468485F9
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>> David Robbins K1TTT
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