[ARC5] HF Air/Sea Rescue Launches (was Needful...)

[David Stinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Basford" <roger at new-gate.co.uk>
Subject: [ARC5] Re: Return of Needful Things (J Forster)


> Later than WWII in fact. A former works colleague told me of using 
> R1155/T1154 on ASR launches as late as the 70s and I believe the one they 
> have/had on show at the IWM at Duxford came from such a launch. Makes 
> sense, I suppose, as their "customers" were most likely aircraft in 
> trouble and using similar equipment. Later on I'd think they retained them 
> as standby sets, most A/C having changed to VHF/UHF by then.

Good Morning, Roger.
I have documentation in a sectional around here somewhere
of how the U.S. established in the South Pacific,  a sort of
"picket line" of ships and islands with launches along the
major bomber and transport flight routes.  The sectional
gives the same 4 MC emergency calling frequency
all along the routes.
This makes sense to me, because it was a "given" that major
aircraft would have some form of HF installed, while many
might never get fitted with VHF before they were sent to the
scrap yards at the end of the war.
73 Dave S.