[Lowfer] Not exactly [Lowfer, but does anybody remember...

[J D]

Thanks to Pete for posting the links. They are documents I already had, 
along with an article from Radio-Television News from April '44 that 
described the studio setup of the network and the coverage-limiting 
antennas.  But the fundamental questions about the 50 W rigs remain:

> Did the 50 W transmitter gear have a regular Signal Corps
> part number? (That alone would help searches!) Are there tech manuals,
> schematics, or any other specs?  Who made them, for that matter? Were
> they built to task, or were they customized low-fi comms gear?

All these would have been installed in 1943 or early 1944 prior to 
D-Day. After that, AFN expanded across northern Europe at the speed of 
battle and needed to cover larger geographical areas, without any need 
to protect innocent civilian ears outside of England from exposure to 
contamination from American radio customs and musical influences.  AFN 
mobile stations used the venerable BC-610 mounted in trucks and equally 
portable studios to both broadcast in the upper part of the AM band to 
troops in the European theater of operations, and (via shortwave) to 
relay news reports to London for retransmission to all parts of the 
globe. When a liberated region was considered stable enough, then more 
permanent local facilities were commandeered, renovated, and/or 
installed. These operations are better documented than the early 
low-power ones, though.

Thanks to anyone who can provide more info.