[Milsurplus] Aussie WW2 Sets was BC 191 info -

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At 01:12 AM 12/23/2002 -0800, Hue Miller wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "David Prince" <davprin@optusnet.com.au>
>
> > Just to expand a little on Mike's email.
> > The ATR-4 was built in Australia by Radio Corporation of Australia and 
> was a
> > copy of their RC-16 set.
>
>Nevertheless, this radio was a copy of the US Forest
>Service's 1938-designed type SPF, later built in
>numbers for the US Army when it was thought the
>Army might be needed to put out forest fires in the
>West. SPF for Smokechaser Portable Fone

...Affectionately referred to, by smokechasers who used them,
as their "Short Peckered Friend."   (SPF)

Would that be a reference to their QRP output?   :-)

(gleaned from old articles about them from Spokane sources)

Perry     w8au