[GreenKeys] Couple Teletype Presentation Pictures

[Howard Weeks]

Radio on a horse!

Howard K5JCP

On 5/16/2016 2:18 PM, Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys wrote:
> Doug- also called the pogo stick.... see link  for more info!
> http://www.radiomilitari.com/bc745.html
> Ed# www.smecc.org <http://www.smecc.org>
> 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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