[Milsurplus] RS-6

[Scott Johnson]

Ditto what Breck says, I find that a lot of speculation is made do to 
misinterpreting snipets of information from fragments of T.O's, etc.  While 
the RS-6 may have been mentioned in an early B-47 or B-52 TO, I doubt there 
a many crew dogs that even know what one is. I believe a similar radio WAS 
issued to early U-2 pilots, but was contained in the seat kit. As to a WWII 
fighter pilot needing 20 WPM CW skills, I have never met one that supported 
that argument. All a pilot needed was the ability to remember A and N, 
station ID's were (and still are) shown as dots and dashes on the WAC 
charts.

Scott
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "b. smith" <smithab11 at comcast.net>
To: "milsurplus" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:29 AM
Subject: [Milsurplus] RS-6


>I see that the RS-6 string  has started again. Some one mentioned that the
> components units would fit in a flight suit pocket, I doubt if this would 
> be
> a procedure .  Another factor is that if the crew member somehow squeezed
> one of the components into his flight suit pocket the  unit would exit the
> bottom of the pocket at initiation of the parachute shock (opening) . We
> found that out the hard way with the URC-4 series .
>
> It is a very difficult radio to set up and operate. It does  not have a
> spotting function and it is very difficult to find your frequency that you
> are transmitting on.
>
> There is a way to spot your frequency but is very difficult and requires a
> lot of  screwing around. I have modified my set for a spotting function 
> with
> a hidden micro switch.
>
> I know of no crew member in SAC that was trained or had any knowledge of
> this radio system.
>
> A picture taken at the fall MRCA  of my RS-6 station  is at
> http://solo11.abac.com/zorroab1/MRCA04/page%202.html
>
> breck k4che
>
>
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