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

[Mike Hanz]

Both John Forster and Hue have it right, I think.  Given the USAAF 
penchant for applying OA (Operations Analysis) mathematical techniques 
to everything under the sun, I am sure that the march of airfield 
navigation aids followed the maximum reach of Japanese bombers fairly 
closely, at least once the Japanese were in retreat mode.  I may have 
been the one who sent Hue a copy of that set of documents - I recall 
making some complete copies for a couple of folks.  It had a radio log 
for a flight from Hawaii to places in the South Pacific, and it did 
indeed have both beacon and radio range frequencies for most of the 
war's backwater airfields that were beyond the range of Japanese bombers 
in 1945.  I haven't found the entire document yet, but I did post the 
instructions for ferry flights to Guam, including a couple of charts, at 
http://aafradio.org/sidebar/Ferry.pdf  There are numerous references to 
500kHz and navigation frequencies.

Be aware that the file is 4 MB, so it will take a while to load at low 
bandwidths.

73,
Mike

On 11/3/2010 1:21 AM, Mike Morrow wrote:
> 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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