In the late 90s, a great mass of official
documentation on WWII-Korean-era communication
gear was pulped by U.S. Navy bureaucrat drones
with no regard for technological history.  As a result,
unless there is a box in the barn of some long-SK
which the grandkids have not yet thrown out,
and rats have not used for nesting,
certain knowledge of why radios like
the R-148  receiver and T-15/-16/-17 transmitters
were built will not be available to us
before Judgment Day.  We have only
educated guesses & speculative theories
from the cynical to the optimistic.

Unless and until one of those boxes of
documentation, slowly going to dust in
an abandoned barn in Iowa surfaces,
we may have to be satisfied with
never knowing the answers.

GL OM ES 73 DE Dave AB5S

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