[Milsurplus] Whatzit

[Mike Hanz]

Michael's note reminds me that the five pages from the Navy Aircraft 
Radio training manual were still in .gif format from my original 
website, so I've encapsulated them in a .pdf doc at 
http://aafradio.org/docs/1943-Navy-radio-gear.html so one can view the 
entire set without flipping back and forth.

Please note the warning I placed at the top of the page when I 
originally created it - *"These listings should be viewed with a degree 
of caution, since some of them seem to be derived from pre-war 
nomenclatures. Thus a listing for an aircraft that was correct for 1938 
would not necessarily be correct for the same aircraft in 1943."*   A 
couple of the later PBYs have inexplicable asterisks that are not 
explained in the training manual, unfortunately.  They are probably 
artifacts of being pulled another document back in 1943.  I would expect 
elite units like the Black Cats to possibly have something different, 
like an RAX-1 set, but without more documentation, it's mere speculation.

73,
Mike

Michael Tauson wrote:

>On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:39 PM,  <jcoward5452 at aol.com> wrote:
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>> I've always wondered what gear was aboard the "Black Cats" PBY
>>Catalinas.These were some of our early "stealth" aircraft in the PTO.
>>
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>Check out http://aafradio.org/docs/Navy-radio-gear-1.GIF (Mike Hanz's
>site) for the answer.  The liaison sets were mostly GOs with any of
>several receivers including RUs.
>