re: #186 Anymouse

It still is to some extent, though over the ocean, HF works a lot better to reach the USA than UHF.

Techs in the shop would use our bench HF radio (an AN/ARC-51) on the ship to get news like the BBC or music.

Our problem was that the planes weren’t big enough to string a truly functional antenna. It was close but not quite there, hence the hell. Ships don’t seem to have that problem, apparently.

I wish that we were able to listen to the Beeb on our trans-atlantic hops. We had shit.