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In a message dated 5/16/2016 7:19:32 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
douglas-w-jones at uiowa.edu writes:

On May  16, 2016, at 1:17 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote:

> As anecdotal evidence,  I'll present my AN/GRC-122B RTTY shelter: 
Paperwork found in the shelter  suggested that it had been installed on a HMMWV in 
military service, before I  got it and installed it on my own HMMWV. So 
that, at least, puts 5-level RTTY  hardware on the back of a military truck at 
least as late as 1986.

A  related story:  My father was in the signal corps in WWII.  Mostly,  he 
was in combat support, repairing radios equipment and sending things back  
to the front.  Most of the repairs, he said, consisted of washing the mud  
out of the equipment, drying it, replacing the batteries and a quick  test.

One of the pieces of equipment he remembers with a degree of  bemused 
fondness was a "walkie talkie" that was originally designed as a  cavalry lance, 
the SCR-511.  That is, it was designed to fit into the  lance socket on the 
stirrup of a cavalry horse and be held as a lance was  held.  It was a good 
radio, but the Battle of the Bulge featured no  cavalry operations.  So, 
lance sockets were fitted to jeeps, an in some  cases these things were hand 
carried into combat.

Doug Jones
jones at cs.uiowa.edu
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