[Milsurplus] Philippine guerilla radio?

[Hue Miller]

I started the thread to try to get some information or ideas going.
I'm not sure the PRC-1 was the Philippine guerilla radio at all. But
it does seem a good candidate. I went to technical school about
30 years back, one of the fellow's father had been a US Army 
radioman in the Philippines. ( Brought back a really nice Type
99-4 and dynamotor, plus a photo of the Betty bomber landed
in a field, that it came from, but i didn't ever get that thing, darn. )
He said his father saw the guerillas with their radio, his only
comment on this to his son was that the Filippinos  joked about
how hard it was to crank the generator. ( Guess that rules out the
BC-474, sounds more like the BC-654 or PRC-1. Except that the 
BC-654 did not give a lot of skywave dx frequencies - tuned 
3800-5800 kcs.

I didn't see any clue that Merill's Marauders used the BC-654,
but maybe i just missed it. The 2 radios i know were used for
sure by behind the lines units in CBI was the PRC-1 and the 
local-unit built thing, built from V-100 parts. Two sources on
the last item, read about its designing and testout in some book
on CBI, also saw it on some History Channel program, "Supply
Lines of Victory" or something like that. Apparently the idea 
of this last set was to shrink the radio. Come to think of it, the
book said that set only tuned up to the 80 meter band. However,
maybe that was satisfactory for com only inside Burma....
The path Philippines - Australia was longer.

I believe that the guerilla units in the Philippines, from accounts,
may have used some kind of walkie talkies, probably? the BC-611, 
to contact submarines when setting up rendezvous. But it does
seem to me, that storing fresh batteries in a hot humid climate
would be tuff, and keeping them resupplied.
Hue