[Hallicrafters] OT: Aircraft Band

[Rich Oliver]

-or maybe none.  I recall departing Lafayette, IN one summer morning and 
hearing plaintiff pleas to Purdue tower from a Luscombe hoping to land 
there.  The tower did not answer.  After the third transmission I got on 
and offered to relay.  It turned out the tower was not hearing him at all.

I never heard what was behind that - dead PA, deaf receiver, or a 
combination of the two.  I'll bet neither was using a Hallicrafters! 
(Safe bet, I know, but I had to work it in somehow ;-)

Cheers, Rich, KC9GQ

Bill Gerhold wrote:
> AM is used for aircraft communications simply because unlike FM and its
> receiver capture effect, 2 or more simultaneous transmissions would be heard
> as a heterodyne and the tower would know there was a transmission that was
> missed.  It is a safety issue.
> 
> K2WH