[MRCA] URC-4 World Record?

[D. Platt]

On 7/30/2013 1:11 PM, Warren K2ORS wrote:
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> If 150 yards is a world record for URC-4s then they couldn't have been 
> very useful as survival radios!
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> 73 Warren K2ORS
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>
I must agree.  In about 1965, for reasons I simply do not recall, 
contact between a ground-based URC-4 and an airborne Piper Colt and 
using a Narco VHT Superhomer (?) that happened to have VHF Guard 
installed as one of the frequencies. At the time, we were operating at 
about 2500' and at a range of about 6 miles.  (Dover AFB to 
Dover-Cheswold airport) I don't think we terminated for lack of 
communications.  Rather, I think we were preparing to land and had other 
things to do..  Of course, air-to-ground is the best case. Maybe a 
ground-to-ground record is a bird of a different color?

Jeep K3HVG