[GreenKeys] Couple Teletype Presentation Pictures

[David Kirk]

Also known as a Horsie-Talkie.  I sold two of these about a decade ago 
after receiving them from a MARS amateur radio operator friend back in 
late 70s.  Interchangeable crystal plugins determined the frequency, as 
I recall, labeled with a letter designation such as "A" or "C".

On 5/17/2016 9:51 PM, Howard Weeks wrote:
> Radio on a horse!
>
> Howard K5JCP
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> 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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