[Milsurplus] Subject: Re: RAX-1 Contract Information

[J. Forster]

Hue,

I think beacons, etc. could have gone on the air after the Allies achieved
effective air supremacy.

-John

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> Hue wrote:
>
>>I must comment that  it appears from a 1945 Pacific Air Facilities
>> booklet I
>>have, that practically every island and large landmass airfield alike,
>> had
>>LF and MF services, most often both homing and range stations.
>
> Hue,
>
> The date you cite (1945) is problematic, and critical.  Is it AFTER the
> cessation
> of hostilites?
>
> It is hard to imagine that DURING the war the Pacific islands hummed with
> hundreds
> of beacon and broadcast band transmitters blithely broadcasting a homing
> signal to friend and foe alike.  (Please excuse the alliteration.)
>
> I must be mis-interpreting your information.
>
> Mike / KK5F
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