On 4/13/2012 6:28 PM, Mike Morrow wrote:

> Even the emergency lifeboat transmitters like the SCR-578 and AN/CRT-3 and
> commercial equivalents, plus all the larger lifeboat emergency receiver and
> transmitters like the RCMA ET-8053 (AN/SRC-6) and the Mackay 401-A (AN/SRC-6A)
> sent MCW on 500 kHz. 

Thanks for posting the AN/SCR numbers for those - as an FCC ship
inspector in the latter 1/3 of the 20th century I tested many of them
but never knew the military designation.

You said that you collected them - do you have available the Able Bodied
Seaman-types that were needed to crank those beasts for any length of
time?  <G>
---
73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402

>From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon
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