[Milsurplus] Re B-29 HF Radios

[Kargokult@aol.com]

 >Surplus transmitters and receivers were always issued to the many radio
 >amateur clubs throughout the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, as well as
 >were made available to "prominent" hams (read: well-connected to the Party).
 >Some of my contacts had original BC-348's and later US-9's, but none had a
 >US-made transmitter or a look-alike, nor they have seen any). For surplus
 >transmitters they had obsolete Soviet Army or Navy equipment. 
 >73, Meir WF2U >>

One Russian ham told me he had seen another Russian ham with a complete
Navy TBW, including gas-engine generator. That is pretty amazing, and 
certainly untypical.
The US-produced V-100 radio did  have transmit capability, as it is a trans-
receiver, and some of them apparently reached hams there, but apparently
none! here.
Then of course the other US-supplied receivers, AR-88, BC-312. One 
Russian offered me a US Navy type  RBG (or RBH - the military HQ-129).
Maybe there were other receivers  too. Oh- and then there was German
equipment they had, that eventually filtered down to hams also- the
E-52 receiver.
Hue