[Milsurplus] TBS question

[Hue Miller]

Just wanted to point out that the WW2 wideband FM
communications was in no way secure.
Superregen receivers tuning up to 100 Mcs or past, were
available since the mid-1930s, and these do a decent job
on demodulating WBFM. ( They have a harder time doing
NBFM, recover much less audio. QEX magazine in the 
last few years had a couple articles by Charles Kitchin
(i believe SP okay), probably the world's top regenerative
receiver designer nowadays, where he described quench
frequency wave shaping for better selectivity, and thus
better recover of NBFM with the superregen.)

Tony Grogan described an anecdote of 2 GI's returning
to states from Pacific, each had one of those 1-tube
Japanese walkie talkies ( Type 94 Mark 6 ), they were
on different ships in the convoy and they put the talkies
to use talking back & forth.
Sounds like an almost ideal sea voyage, relaxing, knowing
no more chance to die a violent death in some desperate
battle, and on Pacific in autumn, before winter storms
and cold weather. I say "almost", because you were still
on a troop ship, sleeping on stacked bunks, with open
toilets in rows, etc. etc.
Hue Miller