[MRCA] Korean War Radio Sets

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Well, the fact remains that in early December 1950, at least one Marine 
squadron at Yonpo was still flying Corsairs carrying VHF equipment.  

In a message dated 04/12/2012 10:47:07 AM Central Daylight Time, 
kk5f at earthlink.net writes: 
> Robert wrote:
> 
> >USMC used the MAW in Korea...Most likely an AN/ARC-1 on the other end.
> 
> But also, the USN was an early proponent for the UHF-AM band for military
> aircraft comms, starting at the end of WWII.  I suspect that by the Korean
> War the UHF versions of the above-named sets were in common use by the 
> USN.
> That was probably less so for the USAF and USA, which seemed to hold 
> longer
> to VHF-AM even after installing UHF-AM gear.  In Vietnam, for example, 
> most
> Army helicopters had not only UHF-AM and VHF-FM sets, but also a VHF-AM 
> set.
> 
> The UHF version of the MAW was the MAY.  The UHF version of the AN/ARC-1
> was the AN/ARC-12.  Any existing AN/ARC-1 installation could be modified
> to an AN/ARC-12 installation by doing only two things:
> (1)  Replace the VHF RT-18*/ARC-1 with the UHF RT-58/ARC-12.  The existing
>      mount, control box, and interconnect wiring were all unchanged.
> (2)  Install a UHF antenna in place of the VHF antenna.

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