[Milsurplus] KWM-1 a spy radio?

Tue, 09 Sep 2003 07:28:10 -0700

OK, I guess my email on those thread didn't get thru.  So, here goes.

Definitely not a myth.  During ,my career at Lockheed, we installed
KWM-2 and -2 radios in Lockheed C-130 "Rivet" airplanes.  Some of
the radios ran off the aircraft 28 VDC power and some ran off its
115 VAC 400 Hz power.

It wasn't unusual that 1 or more of the crew would be ham radio 
licensees and use the radios for ham stuff while in transit to and
from an operational mission area.  Once on station, of course, all
ham activity stopped and the radios were dedicated to the mission.

Dick
Managing Engineer/Engineering Test Pilot (Retired)
Electromagnetic Systems Engineering
Lockheed Skunk Works

> On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 09:12:14 -0400 (EDT) "Marty R's GI-stuff haunt"
> <[email protected]> writes:
> > K6DUE's CBS counterpart claims this.  This man is the fella that
> > sent news of early Mercury splashdowns from the Enterprise to CA on
> > a KWM-2
> >
> > Says 'M1 was used in small numbers in late '56 when the U2 was
> > already
> > 2 yr.s old.  Gives availability of 28VDC supply as evidence
> >
> > Urban legend?
> >
> >   Marty
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