During the second approach VHF communications were lost for a short time due to the tower transmitter's failure.
VHF communication is Line-of-sight propagation and provides communication with ground-based transceivers (often referred to as remote ground stations).
Thus VHF communication is only applicable over land masses which have a VHF ground network installed.
The success of King Radio began with the highly popular KY 90 VHF communications radio, known for its clarity and low cost.
Frequency range is 1.5-40 MHz allowing short range VHF communications overlap with the other clansman series radios on the higher frequencies.
The TsRL was already conducting research on VHF communications, and had built a set operating at 50-cm (600-MHz).
This is common in aviation VHF communications but not in nautical VHF communications.
It was used for VHF communication on the Apollo manned lunar landing program.
There are currently no navigational nor Visual aids nor night landing facilities available on the airstrip other than the VHF communication and the windsock.
Because of the larger bandwidth required, NBFM is much more commonly used for VHF communication.