[Milsurplus] Praise for Australia's WWII Engineers

[Ray Robinson]

Hi Hue,

> The link above states it was used in "Catalina" also.
> I assume Catalina only refers to PBY craft. 
>
yes.

> Why would the PBY be supplied to other countries without standard US
> radio gear installed? Supply & maintenance, i suppose?
>
Australia needed long range seaplanes, and purchased them from the USA. 
They flew them from the USA to Oz during the war.
Some were factory fitted with GO9 and others with ATB transmitters,
for the ferry flights.

> In the Aussie Catalina, was this AT-5/AR-8 the voice radio, i mean, was there
> a higher powered liaison set also?
>
The standard RAAF all purpose HF/LF tx/rx was the AT5/AR8 for AM and CW.
There was no Liason/Command function distinction, 
or separate duplicate radios.

73
Ray vk2ilv