[ARC5] German throat mics - mystery almost solved
Hubert Miller
Kargo_cult at msn.com
Thu Dec 3 22:45:58 EST 2020
I know that the U.S. tank commander used a T-17 mic. Does this mean the rest of the crew wore throat
mics? I don't believe I have ever seen a photo of a tank crewman wearing such. But maybe I just haven't
seen enough photos, or the right photos.
There is a YouTube video of the Norway ham fellow LA6NCA using a German throatmic while communicating
over the Panzer radio pair on 10 meters. It sounds "different" but there's no trouble at all conversing.
That reminds me: I watched about an hourlong video about reconstructing what occurred during Michael
Wittmann's final battle. His Tiger tank was broadside hit; the ammo went up, and the turret blew off. The
video producer visited the farmer whose land this transpired on. Farmer had among other large metal pieces,
a throat mic, without cord, that had been found. That this survived is one of those high power physics anomalies,
as this was one of those cases where the whole crew's recovered remains probably could be buried in a shoebox.
My brother, presented with such an anomaly, would say, "Aha, there's a conspiracy afoot!"
-Hue Miller
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