Two Types of Radios

Primarily you took the dit dah which I do, morse code, and that was primary, probably number one. And then we took a certain amount of radio in terms of understanding how to operate a transmitter and receiver. And there was two transmitters, two types to be trained on and some of the bombers were equipped at that time with those. There was an 1154 and a 1155. That was the numbers, and anyone that sees this remembers will agree, that’s what they were, and there was a 1034 and a 1035. They were real old, but that was the transmitter and receiver. So we learned how to operate them, you had to, there was like a little dial that scoped in like a radar later, and when you, I can’t remember the term, but you’d receive a message and in order to transmit on that channel you had to work dials here to bring this cone right into the centre and when that cone came in there you knew that you were on the receiving channel and you could send out your code. These were all training exercises, but at a later time it would be put to good use.