Martin Mars wreckage found

Bob Moore wrote:

Ogden Johnson III wrote

I thought the MARS was for Military Aviation Something Something,
unaware that Mars was the *name* of the aircraft.

MARS...Military Affiliate Radio System. Formerly Military Amateur
Radio System.

Bob Moore
N4WZP

Quite correct Bob...the Canadian Armed Forces has about the same
deal. It's called CFARS, 'Canadian Forces Affiliated Radio
System'...and works the same way, on a few dozen commercial HF
frequencies near the Amateur Radio bands.

A very good info site on CFARS is:

http://www3.sympatico.ca/gunslinger/about.htm

-Gord Beaman - VE1EO - CIW818


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Gord Beaman wrote:

Bob Moore wrote:

Ogden Johnson III wrote

I thought the MARS was for Military Aviation Something Something,
unaware that Mars was the *name* of the aircraft.

MARS...Military Affiliate Radio System. Formerly Military Amateur
Radio System.

Quite correct Bob...the Canadian Armed Forces has about the same
deal. It's called CFARS, 'Canadian Forces Affiliated Radio
System'...and works the same way, on a few dozen commercial HF
frequencies near the Amateur Radio bands.

And did Martin make a flying boat called the CFARS for the
Canajun Navy like they made the Martin Mars for the US Navy?

See my response to Bob, chiding him for telling me what I was
thinking in 1955 and 56 at the tender ages of 11 and 12 going on
12 and 13.

You two are the only ones who have rung this ham radio stuff into
a thread that heretofore, even with digressions, had been totally
devoted to the Martin Mars flying boat.

[Although, perhaps it was too much to hope that thread drift
wouldn't happen to this one. It happens to most every other
thread in r.a.m.n. Sigh.]
--
OJ III
[Email to Yahoo address may be burned before reading.
Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast.]

Ogden Johnson III wrote

See my response to Bob, chiding him for telling me what I was
thinking in 1955 and 56 at the tender ages of 11 and 12 going on
12 and 13.

I made no attempt to tell you what you were thinking Ogden, I
simply made a statement as to what the acronym "MARS" (you did
provide the caps) meant to many of we sailors.

Bob Moore