[ARC5] Re: Green Tagged GF/RU

[David Stinson]

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From: <jcoward5452 at aol.com>
Subject: [Milsurplus] Re: [ARC5] Re: Green Tagged GF/RU


> Thanks Dave,
> ....Your Green now signifies 
> "Naval Reserve", but why?...

The Naval Reserve sets are speced for a different ranges
of frequencies and used differing coil sets.  For example:
The 1938 GF-6  transmitter covered only 2000-4525 KC,
while the "regular" 1938 Navy GF-5 set had coils 
covering 3000-9050 KC.  But then, the GF-7, also a 
Reserve set," had the same coils as the GF-5 with the addition
of a coil for 2000-3000KC.  The later RU-15 Reserve receiver
had only one single-range coil, and that for 1000-2000 KC,
with dual coils to cover up to 9050 KC.

I'm sure the justification was "frequency management between
the services," and that would require keeping sets together 
with their speced coils, but I think that' was the "on top" reason.
While I can't prove it, I suspect the utterly unjustified and unfair
attitude that Guard and Reserve units somehow aren't "real military"
(which still persists today and is still unjustified)
had something to do with ordering sets designed to keep "them"
on "their" frequencies.  Last I looked, Guard and Reserve men
and women bleed red blood, just like "regular army."

73 Dave S.