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

[w4okw]

Airborne "repeaters" are common today in carrier aviation.  The E-2 Hawkeye 
carries a a bunch of UHF transceivers and usually a couple are dedicated to 
"Bellhop" use.  Sure extends the UHF range of the carrier with the Hummer 
sitting up at 24,000 feet "birdy ing" an aircraft that is over the horizon 
(perhaps a helo down low dipping his sonar looking for a sub).

We had a similar setup on our Tomahawk cruise missile chase/telemetry 
aircraft (a Convair 880 jet).  We would relay the chase aircraft's UHF 
transmissions back to the beach or the carrier.  The chase would be down 
with the missile a couple of hundred (or less) feet off the water and 
several hundred miles from the control room back on the beach or on a 
carrier.

If the missile decided to "free lance" and go off the programmed route, the 
chase could override the missile guidance system and fly it to a safe 
recovery area, thus becoming worlds most expensive RC airplane!

73 de Tom/W4OKW
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From: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
To: "David Stinson" <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>
Cc: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>; <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>; "Unserviceable but 
Repairable" <cosmoline at ba-watch.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Re: [ARC5] What did they talk to?


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Marty, I've heard your flying-simplex-repeater stuff somewhere else,
should've paid more attention.