[Milsurplus] KWM-1 a spy radio?

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 03:27:57 +0000

I still have my working Icom IC-02AT.  I carry it to work most days.

Mac, K2GKK/5

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From: aGEnuine Ham <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] KWM-1 a spy radio?
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 09:10:06 -0500

Marty and group:

Having flirted with that business over the years, I can tell you that any
piece of commercial equipment is fair game, and the newer and more novel
it is, the more likely it was used.  How many other small, mobile HF
transceivers were there in 1956?  Transceivers of any kind, for that
matter.  A new paradigm, right there.

A legend I would like to confirm/deny is that development of the later
Icom 2M hand-held with extended receive frequency range (IC-02A?) was
funded by the spies to get a small, wide coverage VHF receiver out of it.
  Legend further states that a portion of the transmitter was then
removed, and an additional input buffer stage added to 'eliminate'
receiver oscillator radiation.  Anyone else ever heard this story or seen
one of the radios?

When the old Electra operation introduced the Bearcat 101, the first
really programmable scanner, it was several months before production
caught up with demand.  Government demand that is, mostly civilian
agencies, but a fair number 'disappeared' into you know where.

In the NSA museum, two 51S-1 receivers paired together (common
oscillators) for airborne HF/DF are on display, an application which
never was publicized outside USAF/NSA circles as far as I am aware.  And,
my all time favorite, the DOD was underprepared for HF comms in Vietnam,
so they took most of Collins ham radio production for several years, and
the user troops all bitched about reliability.  Of ham gear used well
beyond it's design intentions.  Where was all the AN/### stuff which
taxpayers paid millions to develop, if the Collins ham gear was so bad?

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 09:12:14 -0400 (EDT) "Marty R's GI-stuff haunt"
<[email protected]> writes:
 > K6DUE's CBS counterpart claims this.  This man is the fella that
 > sent news of early Mercury splashdowns from the Enterprise to CA on
 > a KWM-2
 >
 > Says 'M1 was used in small numbers in late '56 when the U2 was
 > already
 > 2 yr.s old.  Gives availability of 28VDC supply as evidence
 >
 > Urban legend?
 >
 >   Marty
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