[GreenKeys] RADIO TELETYPEWRITER AN/GRC-46

[Randy and Sherry Guttery]

Paul A. Pennington wrote:
> If you've ever been to Kansas, you know that trees are seldom encountered. 
> In most places, you can't even SEE a tree.  Also, I-70 runs in pretty much a 
> straight line from Missouri to Colorado.  In this specialized case, the gear 
> worked fine!
>   
When I was a "mid-teen" (somewhere around 1964 - 1966) I was 
learning
radio pretty fast - and had a "mentor" who was into radio 
somewhat.
While not a HAM - he did have one of the first CB radios 
(Johnson
Messenger in his (personal / private) jeep - which was 
really a Scout or
such) - and in his unit (California National Guard) they had 
their own
communications shelter / truck - which he liked to "play 
with". I recall
when they updated it (it was a while before I got my FCC 1st 
- so
sometime before fall 1966) he came over all excited telling 
me about
their new radio -- an "ANGRY-19".  I got to play with it 
some time
later- and it was one impressive installation - esp. since 
the "baddest
thing" I had was a BC-654.  He told me that while they 
weren't supposed
to "routinely" run it mobile (i.e. rolling) - they could get 
decent
power out as long as they watched the temp.  I asked him 
about grounding
- he noted that the duce-and-a-half made a fair ground 
plane.  He also
thought the tires were somewhat conductive - though even he 
admitted
that whoever told him that might have been pulling his chain 
(something
about graphite mixed in the rubber?)...  The funnest part of 
knowing
Dick *wasn't* getting to ride in his Army jeep (real one in 
that case),
and even catching a ride once in a tank (up at Camp 
Roberts)! Nope -  it
was that he was an endless source of M80s (real ones!) and 
other such
"toys"...  precision fuse to time their "announcement", and 
no fear
about "deploying" them against any and all curmudgeons and 
other
"bah-hum bug" types...  (He also had a carbide cannon that 
wasn't "shy"
about speaking either!) <grin!>

best regards...

-- 
randy guttery

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