[Milsurplus] Re: Milsurplus digest, Vol 1 #694 - 12 msgs

[Bill Beech]

Al,

Boy, you are absolutely right.  There were not the proliferation of 
birds that are there now.  If there were any of the UHF low orbiters, 
they were the first of their kind.  And the ground radios had not 
progressed to where they are now.

But an RS-6 strapped to your emergency vest would not do you much good 
unless you had a battery strapped there, with it.  My RS-6 gets to be a 
bit heavy for that operation.  And the ejection seat makes a separate 
hard landing - not good for the radios if they could be found. And the 
routes they had in and out - partially, were over some very sparsely 
populated country.

73,
Bill, NJ7P

Al Klase wrote:
> Bill Beech wrote:
> 
>> ...... A better choice of radio for them would have been a small 
>> tactical satellite (225-400MHz) voice system.  It would be a lot 
>> easier to operate than the RS-6, as well.
> 
> 
> Geez, Bill, you're making me feel old.  We're talking about a time 
> period where there weren't any satellites, other than the moon, let 
> alone satellite terminals.
> 
>> ....And my RR-6s do accept an FT-243 crystal for receiving as well as 
>> VFO.
> 
> 
> That's my recollection as well.
> 
> regards,
> Al
> 
>