[Milsurplus] P.S. If You're Interested in AAC PTO Radio Operators:
David Stinson
arc5 at ix.netcom.com
Fri Dec 10 10:57:21 EST 2010
There's another interesting passage from September of 1944
on page 70 concerning a B-25 crew trying to raise a "Cat"
( Catalina rescue aircraft ), showing that, by this time (late-1944)
both SCR-274N and VHF were installed in that aircraft:
After Mr. Q had been circling the downed men for over an hour,
Dick, radio operator, in exasperation called Harry, first pilot,
on the intercom, "I can't raise the Cat, either there's no Cat out there,
or his radio isn't on, or his radio isn't working."
After a brief pause Harry replied,
"Dick switch to VHF, and here in the cockpit,
we'll try to get him on our Command set."
The book references VHF only once, while referring to
what he calls the three-receiver "Command Set" (SCR-274N) many times.
Another data point to show just how late in the game VHF became
a serious contender, especially in the PTO.
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