[Milsurplus] "The RAAF Radio Story" book question.

[Hubert Miller]

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Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] "The RAAF Radio Story" book question.
Thanks, Dean, I have it now. I had misread the previous page, where it names the AR-8, AT-5 pair as being used also in crash boats and air rescue boats. 
I scrambled the numbers part.
-Hue 


On 25/04/2019 15:01, Hubert Miller wrote:
> Before I close this book and put it away, "The RAAF Radio Story", I 
> wish the information to make a correction to it.
> 
> Page 171, par. 4 :
> 
> "Early in the war Standard Telephones and Cables Pty. Ltd., Sydney, 
> made the AT8 transmitter to the RAAF Specification Y2 for a high 
> frequency ground transmitter of 500 watts and it was used
> 
> widely in fixed and mobile services."
> 
> The AT8 in this sentence appears erroneous. So which transmitter does 
> the text really refer to?

Hue,
Have a look at Ray Robinson's site
<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tuberadio.com%2Frobinson%2FAustralian_radios%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C91bda9a56a6e47b4e75908d6c948501e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636917709748827608&amp;sdata=qeQBd37yvckN0Zokt%2FCQHbb3UuFHLK2NCRe4gv%2BQb8s%3D&amp;reserved=0>
Details of the AT8 and a picture

Dean