[ARC5] Related Question Maybe - Re: 4-course radio ranges

[Mike Morrow]

A close friend served two tours in Vietnam, the first in 1968-69 piloting a UH-1H with the 189th Assault Helecopter Company.  He recalls a hot LZ he was approaching with the ADF tuned to Armed Forces Radio playing a Doors song.  The VHF-FM tactical radio was getting busy so he told his new "peter pilot" to "Kill the radio!" to make the music go away.  The new pilot mistakenly hit the deselect switches for tactical FM on the interphone panels.

My friend says he'll never ever forget setting that UH-1 down in a hot LZ with nothing but "Come On Baby Light My Fire" playing in his ears!

These men were and are amazing.  While my friend was still 19 he was already flying a very complex machine in combat multiple times daily for a small war where 325 Americans were dying every week.  Each of his missions made a difference in who came home.  Men like him are the GREATEST of ALL generations.

Mike / KK5F

-----Original Message-----
From: <releazer at earthlink.net>
Sent: Feb 25, 2023 7:33 PM

William F. Buckley was one of a group of students that bought an Ercoupe in the late 1940's and created their own flying club. He enjoyed it very much and one day offered to fly a friend to a certain location. He had observed his instructor communicate with the control tower and it seemed simple enough to handle but when he switched on the radio he was treated to an episode of "Portia Faces Life," a popular radio program. He wondered if perhaps they switched the control tower transmitter over to AM radio during slow periods, but decided that seemed unlikely, so he took off without talking to the tower and proceeded on with the flight. No doubt the LF receiver in the Ercoupe had a second band that covered AM broadcast radio, a common feature in both those and later days, and it was switched to the wrong band.

Wayne
WB5WSV
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