Music for (from) BoB

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by zapatista

one thing i am hoping for in BoB, and requests for this have previously been made to oleg, is that in a coop we can set the ingame cockpit radio's to a common frequency, and that any member of the flight can then "broadcast" music/audio from a set of files on their pc. for some parts of the flight, when things are less busy and no combat is taking place, you can then share a common audio/music files, and having some music of the 40's gently coming in over the radio as you fly out to meet the Hun would help set the mood

iirc the radio's used at the time could be tuned to local radio stations, and bomber crews would at times listen to it on long flights (i think the captain/pilot would patch it in from his radio to the intercom system). would be a nice feature to have for some situations

Excellent idea
Was it ever solved if RAF pilots could actually tune their radio-sets to listen to music? I thought it was a bit of a legend...I've read about it in many books, but I half an idea that all the books were fiction ...

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I think it's been discussed on this forum before and some member said he had some documentation to support it.

Apparently, it's mentioned in a pilot memoirs book that the entire squadron of Spitfires was disappointed when they got their radios upgraded, because they were no longer able to tune in to radio stations.

Also, i've recently read BF-110 aces from the Osprey aircraft of the aces series, in one of the accounts/interviews Werner Methfessel, a 110 pilot who participated in the initial Polish campaign, while on an escort mission over Warsaw clearly states that he instructed his radioman to tune in to the local radio station:

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I clearly remember reading of pilots who used broadcast signals as navigation aids. I guess it would depend on the radios installed though. Chances are, bombers carried better radio equipment as radios were big, bulky, and heavy back then (just guessing on that point though).

Someone check my time line, but I think prior to WWII, RDF was used "fairly" commonly in aircraft and it worked off of AM broadcast stations (I think that was common up intil the 50's or 60's on commercial aircraft). So it would be logical to think that some aircraft would have been equipped to pick up broadcast radio stations.

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