[Milsurplus] Re: HF/VHF Again

[w8au at sssnet.com]

At 04:14 PM 7/9/2008, Hue Miller wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 13:25:35 -0400
> > To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> > From: w8au at sssnet.com
>
> > FWIW: Smaller Navy ships did not have ANY gear
> > for Aircraft comms. I know that LSTs did not get
> > Air Comm gear until after the war. By Korea they
> > were adequately supplied. (of course we know there
> > were always kluged-up exceptions to the general rule)
>
>
>What would they have used, IF they needed? Probably in
>convoy or fleet operations, the small ships did NOT need
>this. But if they did, such as a separated ship, would
>they have a light gun onboard. Somewhere i have a photo
>of a guy squatting before the open hatch on a seaplane,
>using a light gun to the single ship below.

I could only speculate.  Light comms could be done
with planes large enough to have more than a just
a pilot.

All ships did have HF, but this would have been the
domain of the Radiomen, not the OOD on the Bridge.
Smaller ships did not normally have remote boxes
on the bridge for HF gear, having few, if any,
patch panels in Radio Room for that purpose.

Capital ships did have remote boxes for TDQ/RCK operation.

Although a moot point, the "small boys" later on received RED
rcvrs (URR-13) and TED xmtrs specifically
for air comms.

Perry