[Milsurplus] RAX

[Hue Miller]

German comms in the 25-44 MHz range were tactical and not large power, so I 
doubt the U.K. would
find it worthwhile to spend a lot of time listening for skip propagation 
signals there. For example,
the strongest tank radios were 20 watts, and pack radios commonly a couple 
watts.

I think the HF RAXs and GOs were kind of an alternating mistake. Using a GO 
for position reports
on the squirrely 20-26 MHz freqs strikes me as ludicrous. Not to mention, I 
wonder how stable
the PA stage in the GO would be at such frequencies. When the RAX appeared, 
it seems the mistake
had already been rectified by limiting the high freq end on the new GO-9. It 
does seem there are quite
a few RAXs around tho, which I cannot explain; tho not nearly as many as 
BC-348s, which the Navy
to some extent used to replace the RAX, and which wrote off any freqs above 
18 MHz.

One thing that amazes me, is how thoroughly and quickly technologies and 
specialized knowledge
could disappear from the face of the earth, in pre-internet times.
-Hue Miller