[Milsurplus] Where was RAL & RAK used?

[John Kolb]

At 11:33 PM 1/2/2006, Ed Zeranski wrote:

>         Great Lakes ET school in 1964 still taught the SRT-14/15/16 
> and SRR series
>but more often than not what was encountered was SRT/R390A then by the late
>'60s it was WRT/R1051 ( or R390a/CV591 still for some ssb comms) when the
>Nav went SSB and tone mux. The TCS got deep sixed for the General Dynamics
>WRC-1 that looked like a stack of R1051s( RX, Exciter, ant tuner, Amp).
>
>         All in all I think until the SSB change a S**t load of 
> older gear hung in
>until the Vietnam era.

Norfolk Radioman school still taught one of the large black transmitters (TBL?)
in 1962. Nothing at all like the WRT-2's and URC-32's aboard my first ship  :)

But then the only skill I learned in RM school that I actually used 
in the following
3.5 years was typing.

John