[ARC5] Jeep’s with ARC-5 radios

[kn7sfz]

FWIW, this kinda looks like an APU in the passengers seat.

Richard kns7fz



On 7/31/2021 12:43 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> On 31 Jul 2021 at 18:20, Captain D. wrote:
>
>> There isn't room in the back of a jeep for 4 batteries, the radios and an APU. And there is no APU
>> anywhere in any of the pictures posted...
> which does not preclude that batteries or a SMALL APU wasn't used. Any batteries may have
> been removed from the Jeep,.perhaps for charging, when the photo was taken.
>
> There is also no trailer or any towed rig shown in the photo either.
>
> In addition, there most certainly IS room in the back of a Jeep for radios mounted on a board
> over the seats as shown, plus batteries under that board, or a small APU, or batteries, or the
> APU, mounted in the front where the passenger's seat was.
>
> We simply don't have enough information yet to decide one way or another.
>
> About the only thing we can be certain of at this point is that the radios themselves were not
> modified in any way.
>
> I would tend to think that an APU was not used, at least while using the radio gear, since all
> operations were by AM 'phone, and the noise from an APU would have been terribly
> distracting at the very least, and possibly maklng communications impossible.
>
> At this point, my vote is for batteries, and those being charged somewhere else.
>
> Ken W7EKB
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