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

[Hubert Miller]

Well, this pair definitely has the right military gizmo 'look'.
BTW, re Oz gear, a 3BZ coastwatcher set recently sold in the East USA. It was Dennis Starks' set, $1800, no shipping. The buyer is from California and is flying back to 
collect it. 
My comment, this is certainly a historically meaningful radio but always seemed to me like a whole lot of heavy metal to be schlepping thru the jungle. I would ask
'em back then, "Really, there's nothing else you could use?"  Maybe something like the U.S. Navy's TCH, but with the AM transmit power not down-limited from CW ?
-Hue 


Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] "The RAAF Radio Story" book question.

On 25/04/2019 17:28, Hubert Miller wrote:
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> 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,
Yes, the AT5/AR8 were an entirely different radio pair.
Made by Amalgamated Wireless  (AWA)
Not only used by the RAAF but ISTR the Army as well.
The home grown product - dare I say it - was a better set than the WS19 (Aust) or the T1154/55
4 units: The AR8 Rx, AT5 Tx, the ATU and a power supply Like the 1154/55 it had a low MF 140 -500 Khz and HF  2 - 20Mhz I used to own one - long gone now - pity!
Dean