Same reason the Air Force still can't talk to the ground pounder
unless they stick an AF guy with an AM rig with them on the ground. Sigh

Nah. We had a surplus outfit here in Tucson that cut up old Air Force
planes at DMAFB (The Boneyard).

I bought a Collins KWM-1 from them that came out of a B-47. They were
using SSB a long time ago. I wish I had kept that radio as it might
have been very widely traveled.

Yes Wes, and SSB IS AM. If you were an Old Crow, you still are. By any
chance know Duke Knief?

Was out to Davis Monthan last year, all those single flight C-141's was
sickening. From the factory to the boneyard just to protect some
congressmans turf.

W4ZCB