[ARC5] ATD Transmitter Longwave Tuning Unit Repair

Hubert Miller Kargo_cult at msn.com
Tue Jan 5 15:06:03 EST 2021


Thank you, Wayne. At last we have documentation on the purpose, no more reason for 
some of the flights of imagination. As I wrote quite a while back, this is how after the
survivors of the Indianapolis were sighted, other planes homed on the discovering plane.
And navigation, that's where the plane requests a bearing, QTE, from a ground station.
More ground DF stations had only LF - MF DF capability, not all had HF DF. 

I am trying to remember the account of an incident in a book compilation of Japanese 
Navy aviators. One or the other section the plane's transmitter was nonfunctional, 
either HF or MF, and it led to the plane not finding its way back to carrier. Since my
memory can't pull it up, I'll have to find the book. 
-Hue Miller 


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