[Milsurplus] NAVCOMMSTA Adak Alaska

[mikea]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 03:59:14AM -0500, C.Whitaker wrote:
> de WB2CPN
> I never heard of a radio operator on a WWII airplane
> using a bug. 
> Even when I was in that kind of work on the ground in
> 1946 we had to have the CHOP give us a signed
> certificate if we used a bug, which we had to buy
> ourselves.  USAF issued some to long range CW nets,
> but not to us air-ground operators.
> Besides, the radio operator in combat aircraft didn't
> sent a lot of traffic, and only three or four Q-Signals
> each time then.   Pedantically, he says.
> 73  Clete

That's what he told me. I myself don't see how he could have, with the
typical rough ride that he described, and would have thought that a
straight key would have been much better suited. But it was his, and
he gave it to me. It's definitely a 1942-vintage Vibroplex-made J-36,
according to the ID plate.

He's not here to answer questions, now that I'm old enough and experienced
to have some. Wish he was, as he was a Really Neat Gent.

Very 73, Merry Christmas, and gud DX, de

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin