[Milsurplus] LM

[Bill Cromwell]

In the 80s I was in the Navy - Marine Corps MARS program and one of our
members sometimes logged into the evening traffic net using a signal
generator with the straight key making/breaking the antenna connection.
He was remarkably easy to copy. When the propagation fairy visits it
just doesn't take much.

73,

Bill  KU8H


On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 00:51 -0800, Hue Miller wrote:
> I wish I had documented this better, but many years ago an ex-Navy
> flier told me about using an LM in a patrol PBY to contact their airfield,
> just to see if it could be done. Airfield was in Florida. He also had 
> comments
> on the search for, was it, Squadron 9, lost in the "triangle".  His crew
> declined to fly search in a PBY that they judged unsafe. It later exploded
> in flight, with another crew aboard.
> 
> "Somewhere" I have a 'WorldRadio' magazine article which recounts
> the story of a lost USAAF cargo plane over Alaska, transmitter out,
> radioman uses BC-221 to contact airfield. I kind of suspect that one is
> fiction.
> 
> I think the skill factor in reading the vernier dial makes for a swell
> 'user experience'.  -Hue