[ARC5] Jeep’s & a GP-7 that needs covers

[MARK DORNEY]

Not the radios in the previous photos. Also, no room in the vehicle except for the driver. 

Mark D. 
WW2RDO

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> On Jul 31, 2021, at 7:06 PM, hwhall at compuserve.com wrote:
> 
> 
> The local WWII museum has a GP-7 type that was donated (more like abandoned) that's missing the covers. Wonder if there's any chance of ever finding some?
> 
> Wayne
> WB4OGM
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net>
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Sat, Jul 31, 2021 3:21 pm
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Jeep’s with ARC-5 radios
> 
> Along with a GP-7 and RU-18 or -19.
>  
> Mike / KK5F
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kn7sfz <kn7sfz at gmail.com>
> Sent: Jul 31, 2021 4:49 PM
> To: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Jeep’s with ARC-5 radios
> 
> 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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