[ARC5] Interesting Info and a Question

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Robert, et-al,

The operator carried the batteries in a pouch on his chest,  Picture  
of the lash-up available on  request.

Dennis D. W7QHO
Glendale, CA

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On Apr 6, 2011, at 5:29 PM, Robert Eleazer wrote:

>  am reading a book on the history of the Sherman tank and it points  
> out that the Army did recognize they had a problem with infantry  
> being unable to talk to armor due to a lack of suitable radios.  The  
> BC-1000 did not cover the armor frequency range.  So they took a  
> BC-620 and rigged it up as a backpack radio.  Since the BC-620 would  
> make a pretty good load all by itself I have no idea where they put  
> the batteries.