[Milsurplus] WWII Japanese VHF?

[Hue Miller]

From: "David Stinson" <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:55 PM
Subject: [Milsurplus] WWII Japanese VHF?


> I think I've asked this before, but don't remember.
> Does anyone have any documentation showing the
> Japanese had any significant capability to intercept
> VHF airborne communication in the Pacific?

Dave, in the TM-11-227-E on  ( IJA) Nippon army
ground equipment, i see there are NO vhf equipments
listed, except a couple low-vhf 2-way sets. The only
other docs i have seen are an ONI pub with a section
on Nippon aircraft radio, neither does it show any
tunable search type receiver. The only radar list i have
seen, as i recall doesn't have search receivers listed.
However, i'd bet that at least the larger warships had
some vhf search receiver, as part of their overall
radar search equipment.
Years back, when there was "Ham Trader Yellow Sheets",
before the Internet was contemplated, and we waited
eagerly for those 5 pages to be delivered, i once saw
a listing for a "Japanese WW2 vhf receiver 100 - 156
MHz". At the time i had Ø interest in vhf, and i didn't
even inquire. That is the closest i have come to learning
about a Nippon WW2 vhf receiver in about 30 years.
-Hue Miller