[Milsurplus] Older USAF airborne receivers?

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

On the B-52Fs on which I was aircrew (ECM)
from 63-66, we had only the AN/ARC-65 HF set
which was a modified-for-USB AN/ARC-21 if I
remember correctly.  That was it other than
VHF and UHF AM for Air Traffic Control and
Command and Control purposes.

Of course, I could receive from about 20 MHz
up through about 10 GHz with my ECM gear
but it certainly wasn't comm stuff.

Now that statute of limitations has well run out,
I confess to jamming 11 meters with a noise
jammer.  I gave a few seconds of jamming and
then off.  Great fun to hear the CBers jabbering
about "where and what the source was!"

Mac - K2GKK


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Jason White" <jason at jason.white.name>
To: Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Milsurplus] Older USAF airborne receivers?
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:10:34 -0500

Someone out there would probably know this. I'm familiar with the
ARC-5 sets that the WWII era aircraft carried, but what sort of
receivers were employed in the SAC era USAF aircraft? I'm thinking
specifically about the HF range. There is a 60s era B-52 crash site up
on Elephant mountain in Maine that I got to visit once, and there is
scads of comm gear all over the place but not much identifiable except
for one piece of equipment I found with a Collins logo. I of course
didn't touch it out of respect (as countless others before me). I'm
assuming since it was left there in the 60s that it must not be much
of a secret.

Anyone know, or could point me to a good reference to these sorts of 
questions?

73,

Jason White
N1XBP
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