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Percy and all:: My entire enlistment duty during the Korean "Conflict" was to protect the technology which at the time was called "IFF" Identification Friend or Foe". All pilots were instructed to press the self destruct apparatus on their aircraft in the event they had to bail out. This would set off charges in the equipment that would destroy it. If this failed they headed for the west coast of Korea north of Inchon to ditch in the Yellow sea, and Korea Bay. There we were on 24 hour patrol ready to pick up any downed pilots, in old stripped down MTB's of WW II vintage. all to protect those damned transponders and keep them out of the hands of the enemy. Now you can buy one surplus and keep it right next to your Norden bombsight! D. Wayne Woollard Percy Wood wrote: > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > At 05:32 AM 9/28/01 -0700, you wrote: > > >POP:: (Percy old Pal!) > >As you might recall; N6596Q was tracked on its trip to the Northland > >throughout the entire trip from > >Barrow AK to Key West FL with an installed tracker, that had its own > >particular identification, and did > >not impact flight service or ATC. and anybody with a computer could track > >it! So, this technology is > >nothing new. > > Exactamundo, Wayne. > The North American Air Defence Command had to be able to find the > Russian bombers coming over > the poles back in the 1950-1960 time frame. They didn't say "Bear 6596, > squack 7123 and ident." > Which bums me. My thinking is that NORAD didn't want to tell the FAA how > to do it, because the > word might leak out. As if the Russians could not figure it out. So the > FAA did it the old way = tell > the civil fleet they had to put an altitude encoding transponder in or else. > The computer part is new, however. > Percy in Portland > -- Mr. D. Wayne Woollard, CPBE AIM: DWWoollard ICQ: 124132836 "Why fly a Spam can when you can have fun and fly an Ercoupe?" ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiLm.aVzvvT Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
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