Talk:Survival radio

Range

Just how much precision is valuable to the reader? Supposing someone who reads English has never run across the word "mile" before, he/she/it can search for it in the usual places one finds definitions (even if it isn't hyperlinked ). I speculate, without any evidence whatsoever, that anyone who reads English has a notion of a "mile". Someone somewhere probably recorded the greatest distance ever worked by a Gibson Girl, but the exact number doesn't really give the reader any better an idea of how the thing was intended to be used. --Wtshymanski (talk) 17:37, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

There's a grim sort of triage to a hand-cranked survival radio in wartime; batteries were scarce, labor to maintain them was also scarce, and if the casualty wasn't fit enough to keep turning a crank till rescued, he probably wasn't going to get up and fight again when fished out of the water. Some examples of successful or otherwise use of survival radios would help the article. --Wtshymanski (talk) 13:49, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

CRT-3

In addition to the box kite and hydrogen balloons, the CRT-3 (which was my primary ditching responsibility as an SS3 aboard P-3s), was equipped with a 'beanie': an incandescent lamp worn atop the user's head, secured by a chinstrap. I'm not making this up. The lamp was to signal aircraft/surface vessels in visual range, and the operator could send Morse code. This was shortly after dinosaurs roamed the Earth. LorenzoB (talk) 03:33, 29 November 2019 (UTC)