[ARC5] Just Wodering!

[Don Merz]

The Navy had then and has now a sophisticated set of hand signals that allow near-perfect communication between members of the same flight. Even in the jet age, radio communication was minimized to prevent unwanted interception. I believe this is still true today.
Great book on Navy flying from the Hellcat through the Tomcat: Feet Wet, by Gillcrist. Walks through specific Vietnam-era situations where hand signals were used instead of radio.
73 de N3RHT


      From: Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
 To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net 
 Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 10:59 PM
 Subject: Re: [ARC5] Just Wodering!
   
    This is an interesting site that I seem to have missed before.  I 
love the mimeograph artwork on the cover.

On 6/30/2016 7:44 PM, Michael Hanz wrote:
> http://aafradio.org/docs/Early_RU&GF_Navy-radio-gear.html has a more
> specific viewpoint by the Naval Research Lab.
>
>          73,
>  - Mike  KC4TOS
>
>
>
>> Most likely the earlier USN a/c used various iterations of the GF/RU
>> series.  Larger planes such as patrol bombers would have carried
>> higher-power equipment, the GO transmitter being an example.
>>  Multiplace single- engine types like dive (scout) bombers and torpedo
>> bombers carried medium-power transmitters including the GP series.
>>  The RU receiver (TRF type, 195-13575 kc using plug-in coil sets) was
>> usually paired with not only the low power GF transmitter aboard small
>> a/c including fighters, but also the GO/GP series.
>
>
>
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Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL
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