[ARC5] Korean War HF Command Set

[Mike Everette via ARC5]

USN and USMC would also have been flying A-1 (AD-*) Skyraiders.  Did these carry any HF gear?  I don't know.

I would hazard a guess that jet fighter-bomber aircraft would not carry HF.

Could the photo at issue have been a staged one, with whatever radio was handy?

73

Mike
WA4DLF

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On Tue, 8/5/14, D. Platt <jeepp at comcast.net> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [ARC5] Korean War HF Command Set
 To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
 Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2014, 10:12 AM
 
 On 8/4/2014 2:52 PM, Tim wrote:
 > OK guys - maybe a bit off topic for ARC-5 discussions
 but here goes - you
 > guys are smart:  The USMC had Tactical Air Control
 Parties in the Korean
 > War - directing close air support to USMC ground
 forces.
 >
 > There is at least one photo of a Marine TACP unit using
 a GRC-9 presumably
 > controlling an aircraft in a CAS mission.  So the
 question is:  What HF set
 > would a USMC fighter bomber be using during that
 period?  Were ARC-5's in
 > prop/jet fighter bombers even a possibility then? 
 I know this system moved
 > to VHF/UHF but there seems to be evidence of maybe an
 "early" HF system in
 > Korea.
 >
 > Ideas?
 >
 > Tim
 > N6CC
 >
 Tim,
 
 That's a very good question.  I can't speak for the
 Marine Corps, but 
 the USAF airborne assets would have been the ARC-3 and
 perhaps the 
 ARC-49 VHF sets for fighter aircraft (F-80, F-94, and F-86).
 The ARC-27 
 came in a little later. The T-6 FAC aircraft had VHF and
 sometimes HF in 
 the guise of the SCR-274N.  Type 12 VHF gear was also
 used in smaller 
 aircraft like the L-5 and T-6 FACs.  The heavies would,
 of course, had 
 the ARC-8 HF (ART-13/BC-348) setup, to include anything from
 the C-47 
 and C-119 to the bomber series, B-29 et al.  The
 Collins 18S-4 HF may 
 have been in some aircraft late. The Marines were flying, I
 think, 
 Cougars and Banshees (weren't the Panthers all Navy?) at the
 time and I 
 think all they had was VHF, and maybe UHF.  Perhaps the
 HF via the GRC-9 
 or BC-1306 may have been for the heavies??  By the time
 Viet Nam was in 
 full swing, the tactical A/G was FM and via the ARC-44 and
 UHF via 
 ARC-27 and ARC-55 and later UHF sets.  Of course "Red
 Crown" and the 
 like had the whole spectrum covered.
 
 Jeep - K3HVG
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