[Milsurplus] Re: [ARC5] What did they talk to ??

[J. Forster]

Bob Wilder wrote:

> [snip].  In 1939? an American tried to sell the Navy and
> Signal Corp on the idea of going to VHF.  Both said that their HF was good
> enough.  This American went to England and sold the idea to the Brits which
> could see the advantage of VHF over HF in the British Isles.

Actually, this argument makes sense, then and now.  The relative size of the
countries clearly played heavily into it. A few hundred miles if fine for UK
operations.

-John