[ARC5] OT The BC-659- what were they thinking?

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 4 Jun 2016 at 0:00, Mike Morrow wrote:

> There were thousands of ARA/ATA installations in service, none of
> which would have been removed from an older aircraft simply to install
> the AN/ARC-5 equivalent.

Mike:

Do you have any figures on how many of ATA/ARA installations used the 2.1 - 3.0 MHz 
frequencies and why those might have been used, and where?

AFAIK, that range was used for civilian aircraft to communicate with control towers, but I 
have no clear idea of where that range might be used in combat.

Ken W7EKB