[ARC5] Korean War HF Command Set

[Geoff]

In 1960 the AT shop at NAS Olathe KS had plenty of ARC-5's going thru 
service. It was a training base and had several carrier plus Marine 
squadrons come thru as well as trainers plus small twin engine transports to 
pick up Reserves at other cities in the area including Denver. The return on 
Sunday night was full of real Coors since KS was a 3.2 state and some 
counties were completely dry.
I dont know what planes carried what and the newest thing I remember was 
ARC-27's which didnt have a good reputation by the AT's. I was across the 
hangar in the EN shack learning to rebuild engines and run machines but 
being a ham spent a lot of free time with the AT's.

Became an ET in 61 and went to sea.

Carl


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Stinson" <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>
To: "ARC-5 List" <ARC5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Korean War HF Command Set


> Tim: While I have no firm documentation on what a USMC
> fighter bomber like a Corsair during Korea carried,
> it's very likely to have been carrying what it was at the end of WWII.
> Early in the Korean Conflict, the U.S. and U.N. forces used
> what they had left-over from WWII. There had not been a
> lot of spending for "new" military systems so soon after the largest 
> conflict in history. At the end of WWII, a Corsair might have had:
> AN/ARC-5 HF, Range & VHF or AN/ARC-5 VHF with R-23 range or
> AN/ARC-1 with R-23 range or similar.
> AN/ARC-3 became available in large numbers later.
>
> If your USMC troop was talking on a GRC-9 to aircraft, it was likely a 
> utility or transport like a C-47 or C-54, an observation, ferrying or 
> liaison ship.  Many of these all still had HF primaries.
>
> As in WWII, so in Korea:
> There was no hard "we changed to VHF on this date."
> The two systems were concurrent in use (and still are today).
> The majority of aircraft that had HF, kept HF until it broke or the plane 
> wore-out. If an aircraft had ART-13 installed, it probably stayed
> in that aircraft and in regular use well into the 1960s.
> New equipment generally went into new aircraft.
> Whole squadrons of combat aircraft might get new
> radios all at once, but aircraft actually in regular combat
> were only a fraction of the aircraft actually in use.
>
> I helped outfit "radio" jeeps
> for the "Mosquito" forward air observers vet group.
> They tried to have the same equipment in the jeeps as
> the aircraft to which they were talking.  Early jeeps had SCR-287 and 
> SCR-522.
> Later in the conflict,  as newer equipment and newer aircraft arrived, the 
> jeeps were outfitted with AN/ARC-8 and AN/ARC-3.
> Both HF and VHF remained in active service throughout the conflict.
>
> 73 OM DE Dave AB5S
>
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