[Milsurplus] Gibson Girl ( Milsurplus Digest, Vol 138, Issue 13 )

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Close.  That would be AN/CRT-3.  According to my database, it ran 500 KC 
MCW and 8280 KC CW.  The manuals are in the attic but the 8280 is probably 
correct.

Robert Downs - Houston
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In a message dated 10/17/2015 13:14:19 PM Central Daylight Time, 
kargo_cult at msn.com writes: 
> Some thoughts on the survival radios-
> 1- I'm puzzled that the radio appears so infrequently in 'official' 
> military 
> photos of survival equipment supplied with liferafts or even in photos of 
> equipment dropped to
> survivors.
> 2-One of the old Radio News mentioned some kind of loose-knit honorary 
> club 
> or association of survivors who had actually used the radio to summon 
> help. 
> I mentioned
> this item once before here and may have cited the date, page, and 
> magazine.
> 3-A similar magazine had a very brief article on the 'new radio' being 
> developed? or contemplated? and that it would have THREE operational 
> frequencies,
> 500 kHz, 4240 ( I think - someone here will remember the first HF 
> frequency 
> decided on ), and 8480 ( double the other.
> 4-I think the first production, or the first production prototype, 
> operated 
> on two frequencies, the 500 and 8480 ( which was settled on 8364 )
> 
> How's this, from memory,  square with facts others here know?
> -Hue Miller