[Milsurplus] Radio-less trainers

[Marty R's GI-stuff haunt]

Clete I footnoted:

 *could thay have put huge ARC-27 uhf in T6s?  In fact I wonder if any
  radios at all in T6s at training fields. Maybe the civvy 400kcs-up, 
  3105kcs down??

And you responded:

(3) At Randolph and scads of other training
fields the tower transmitted on LF, and received on HF. Ever see
old wartime pictures of the control towers?  Two numbers were painted on
them; the field altitude, and the tower LF frequency.  Most small
trainers didn't have a radio. 

SUSPICION CONFIRMED!

Say but you're an asset here!!

So reason I wondered was a much older bro of a pal bought 3 T6s at auction
@ Clinton County AFB (now Purolator home).  Two ran & were flown out.
Good one had been an organ donor & parts like canopy & rudder pulled
from a clunker, transplanted, & that one flown out too.  I was a "14-yr-old
gee-whiz I'll help too" then.

None had radios.  And, I think, planes were 12-volt critters.  Believe
only one good battery set between 3 of 'em & a new one near as much as 
cost of fleet.  Think it had electric not hydraulic gear which  
wasn't tried til planes flown to new home nearby & jacked up for trial.