[Milsurplus] YG/ZB in Bermuda Triangle?

[Hue Miller]

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From: "Unserviceable but Repairable" <cosmoline at aa4rm.ba-watch.org>

> A lot can go wrong with the system.  Wrong freq.s, yesterday's code
> card, mistaking a L for a F, etc.

Marty, i think you overestimate the system's possible vulnerabilities.
Wrong freqs: how? The VHF converter itself is TRF, not requiring highly
skilled or precise tuning. The MW receiver is at a low enuff frequencty to
be stable.
Yesterday's code card? How happen? This all was taken care of pre-flight,
in the day room or whatever they called it. You have seen the big chalkboard
with all the info for that day's flights?
Mistaking the Morse code character: the character is endlessly repeated at
5 wpm. At this speed, one can write down the dash-dot and look it up.
 
> Wonder if this's a stumble on the reason why the five Grumman Avenger's
> in training flt 19 vanished off FL in '45.
 
Think that was more incompetence of the flight leader than anything else. I 
read a book devoted to this case circa 15 or 20 years ago - book did not
mention radio navigation aids at all, altho i confess i do not know if this was
author's limitations or an actual non-use of radio aids in this case. However,
clearly the incompetence of the flight leader took them all down, overriding
dissent from some of his students. I just did an "ABE BOOKS" search but
dammit, couldn't come up with the book title - i do have the book "somewhere"
in another state ( as in "geographic state" ).

> Have heard there were just two ZB planes per squadron.  Same flyer
> vet sed his "sampan missions" were solo & had a ASB & ZB aboard.

Does this mean "sampan-busting" ?
I always wondered if all the squadron/ flight planes were ZB or ARR equiped,
if not - what happens if the flight leader is out of commission? Wouldn't that
risk the loss of all the other planes?  I had a chance to ask those questions 
of a rear-seat TBM guy some years back - i think i blew that opportunity. -Hue