Bungie cord supported LW radio?

[Hue]

I recently bought a swell book on Japanese aircraft equipment. I will probably post a review to the forum on Japan militaria. Anyway seeing these photos
is why i began to think about this. Among German radios, the only one i am
familiar with, that was supported by bungie cords in kind of an anti-shock suspension, is the VR27 - but i think this was Netherlands production, is this correct? Were there others? When did Germany abandon this method of shock mounting aircraft radios, or maybe they never employed it? It looks to me that only Japan and Italy used this as the most used antishock mounting means during WW2. ( If you have not seen this, on the radio housing there are mushroom shaped buttons, like maybe 4, for the bungie cord to wrap around
or fasten under, maintaining the radio up in the air, off hard surfaces.
I have the VR-27 receiver, no hope of ever finding a matching transmitter.
Not really into aircraft radio anyway - too complicated, too many accessory units required - except for Japanese gear, which i like because it tended to be all in one box - no remote controls, etc. for most of them. Thanks- Hue

[Funksammler]

The only equipment I know directly suspended by bunge cords was the E4 and S4 combination known as the FuG V. This was a Telefunken set originally developed for the German Naval flying service and was later used by the Luftwaffe when the Naval flying service was integrated into the Luftwaffe.

E4:

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Other early equipment used by the luftwaffe was clamped into a frame (Like the FuG III, FuG VII etc. which in turn was suspended by Bungee cords or could be fitted using rubber buffers.

All this early equipment was electrically connected via so called "Kabelschwanzen" or cable tails. When the equipment was removed, the cable tails often snagged and got damaged, so from the late 30's onward, equipment was designed as plug in units, dispensing with the troublesome cables. The equipment would plug into a frame, which was suspended on rubber buffers.

Some Bungee suspended equipment like the FuG III and the EZ 2 remained in service but all new equipment like the FuG 10 and FuG 16 all used the plug in method.

By the way, the type VR27 doesn't ring any bells, can you post a picture?

regards,

Funksammler

[Hue]

Well, the VR-27 was used in a KM seaplane. I saw some 20+ years back in a U.K. aviation magazine, an upscale expensive one, a full color inside photo of this seaplane with the radio equipment all installed. Don't know if period photo or one in a museum somewhere. I was going to say it was all Dutch manufactured, but the vet i got my VR-27 from said it came from a factory near Berlin. I don't know how reliable that is. A German fellow told me he could get me a matching transmitter in trade for my WWI German spark transmitter, but i was unsure if that trade was in my favor, and actually doubted he could find one, so i let it slide. So these two equipments as far as we know were the only German WW2 era aircraft radios to use this means of anti shock mounting.
-Hue

[Hue]

Thanks for your beautiful photo. I just now read the rest of your post. Which obviously obsoletes my prior reply. I believe i have in a book on the KM a photo of your receiver in some kind of deutsche Schnellboot. I saw the receiver in the photo, then looked it up in a directory i have, and was surprised to see it listed as a regen circuit. But, it did work, so okay on that. The VR-27 i think i have it packed up in another state north of here. One very odd thing about it is that the tuning dial is calibrated in LETTERS, ( right ) like A - B - C - D etc. and not the actual frequency. ( something like 3 - 7 MHz. ) I think that's carrying simplification for the troops too far. The mounting posts on it are more like the Japan style, where you'd loop the bungee cord around them. Never saw before the style on your receiver. The seaplane was something on the size of our JRF. I wish i'd forked over the small money for the mag, that one photo was worth it. -Hue