>I guess Radio Ops on the ground on Tinian or Guadalcanal,
>Wake or Midway,
> mustering their big wing of B-17s/B-24s doing pre mission
> radio checks on
> the ground with the aircraft fleet, were often in in 110
> degree heat. In
> the air, everybody still had to be/stay on the same
> frequency at altitude
> where it might be -40 degrees F ambient. The VFOs and
> crystals HAD to be
> stable, and/or the radio ops had great skills in tuning,
> keeping on the
> right freq...Someone should/should have interviewed guys
> that were there, to
> get their stories from a signal corpsman perspective, and
> write/written a
> book.
There already is a good book. It is called Crystal Clear.
http://www.amazon.com/Crystal-Clear-Struggle-Communications-Technology/dp/0470046066
Good reading. Amazing what the Hams contributed towards the
war effort.
73 Tom
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