[Milsurplus] Japanese key

[Hue Miller]

If there were 2 communication sets on the larger planes, according to Taka 
Doi, I take this
to mean the setup like with US planes, one Command Set (generic designation) 
and one
long distance liaison set. I have a photo from the rear cockpit looking 
forward in the spacious
glassed garden house cockpit of a bomber. In a seat behind the pilot - 
copilot seat, you
can see just the left edge of a radio seemingly attached at the rear of the 
seat, whose
occupant is perhaps an observer or radio operator; the radio is attached as 
usual by
"bongee cords" ( contemporary spelling).  The higher powered radio would 
have been
farther back in the plane. I note that Japan used as well as HF, the low VHF 
band of
around 30-50 MHz, so that "may" have been the command frequency. In a 2 or 3
seat plane, I think only 1 radio system, Japan just didn't have the 
resources for both,
unlike with the US SBD and TBM. So the switch would still have made sense as 
I
guessed its use. Didn't some US systems have a similar control setup? 
Thought I
read something like this in the RUGF manual, about a protocol for use of the
radio.
It kind of amazes me how quickly, in the pre-computer age, once firmly known
procedures and methods are forgotten and lost, once fallen into disuse.
-Hue Miller