[Milsurplus] WWII Japanese VHF?

[Bob Wilder]

Someone needs to contact JARL and have them check with some former WW2 
pilots and pose this question.  Get the direct scoop from the users.

Bob, AF2HD



At 11:32 AM 5/19/2005 -0500, David Stinson wrote:



>Todd, KA1KAQ wrote:
>
>>Even if they used VHF though, I'm not sure it would qualify for Dave's
>>original question of widespread use.
>
>Actually, all this continues to build the case for long-standing and
>continuous use of HF in combat aircraft throughout WWII in the PTO.
>What prompted the question was period literature I have that was
>used to drill proper radio procedure among Navy fighter
>and patrol aircraft pilots.  They speak of several documented
>instances where the Japanese, having intercepted talk between
>fighter aircraft, gleaned intelligence from it and used it.
>That would be hard for them to do if the U.S. aircraft were on VHF,
>since they had no wide-spread VHF intercept capability
>(yes- I know about the illustration in the ARC-4 manual,
>but that admonishmont is just common sense, and one funny
>illustration cannot negate dozens of other documentations).
>Perhaps, when people like the "Black Sheep" pilots and the manual
>writers and the radio instructors all tell us in clear terms
>they were using HF, we should consider believing them.
>
>Mike Hanz graciously sent me photos of an APR-4 knock-off
>done by the Japanese that now resides in the Smithsonian.
>This had to have been late-war at best, because of the time
>the APR-4 would have been deployed, time to capture one intact,
>time to back-engineer, ramp-up and produce it.
>Given that, I think it very likely Mike's APR-4 knock-off
>is a "onesie-twosie" deal that didn't see wide production.
>Has anyone ever seen another, anywhere?
>We regularly see examples of their HF radios.
>
>Just more evidence against the "No HF" myth.
>
>73 DE Dave AB5S
>
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