[Milsurplus] Japanese Aircraft Communications

[Hubert Miller]

( Cleaning up some old mails. )
That's because it really has that late 1930s look, kinda antiquey looking, with lots of odd dials and such. And most of their gear thru the war was designed in the late 1930s.  
No, i don't think many Japanese hams think today of using such gear on the air. I think there's not much around there maybe, and they do seem to have this attitude that it's 
museum material only, to be reverenced at a glass case distance. 
There's an issue of the QST book "How to become a Radio Amateur", with a photo up front captioned, "How would you like to talk with the owner of this fine station in Japan",
and he has a "Ground-Air Receiver 94-2" on the shelf in front of him.
-Hue 

>I've always like the look of Japanese WWII radio gear, although I have never known much about the specifications or how well it worked. I understand that most of the WWII gear is very rare these days. In any case, I am sure that there aren't many Japanese hams who use the stuff on the air like some of us do with WWII U.S. gear.

That one looks very interesting what with all the knobs and dials. ;-)

Ken W7EKB