[Milsurplus] Re: British Army Radio During WWII

[Hue Miller]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Foley" <redmenaced@yahoo.com>

> Hmm,...
> 
> You didn't consider the availability of trained,
> capable, repair technicians.  
> 
> Operators would be one thing, operators who knew what
> they were doing outside of the manual were another.

I read somewhere that the No.19 sets had a very high
nonfunctional rate in North Africa, which really surprised
me, as i always considered it a very robust set. Maybe the
shockmount affair was inadequate, i am thinking.
Their WS38 has always seemed to me a real Mickymouse
set, like something our Army might have played with in the
mid-1930s but never gone to war with. Germany also had
a chest-carried walkietalkie, but at least it used  low vhf,
so no long rod needed, and the superregen receiver allowed
for approximate tuning ( Klfu D ).

I have seen some German manuals and  1 Japanese one, and
they seem pretty darn inadequate compared to USA ones, 
actually kinda pathetic. One exception being the German manual
for their FuG10 sets, roughly comparable to our ARC-5,
and the big manual seemed quite as full of information as the
ARC-5 manual.
Hue