[Milsurplus] Re: HF/VHF Again

[Hue Miller]

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From: <w8au at sssnet.com>

> 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.

Didn't most every ship have a HF harbor voice radio,
for the 2-3 Mcs. band?  I mean, during WW2. I think 
before that, many ships still had only telegraph equipment
and sometimes only LF-MF. This didn't need to be as big
a deal as a TCS. There were many companies besides
RMCA producing ship radiotelephones.
I always wondered if the 2.1-3 ARA-ATA equipment
and the 2 - 4.5  TU for the ATB were designed for this
purpose. -Hue K7HUE