[Milsurplus] Philippine guerilla radio?

[Al Klase]

Hue Miller wrote:
......( 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.

The BC-474 (SCR-288) did use the GN-44.  Is it especially 
easy to crank?

A little info from "U.S. Army in WWII, The Signal Corps: the 
Outcome"  Page 281, discussion of commo ops in the 
Phillipines after US invasion:  "The [Alamo] Scouts used 
chiefly SCR-300's and the newer 694's.  The other sets, 
especially the ones used by the guerrilla forces, were a 
motley assortment:  SCR's 284, 288, 300, Austrialian ATR 
$-a, and a Dutch set having an electric generator driven by 
a bicycle-type treadle."

You seem to have fixation on the smaller "agent sets", but 
I'd be looking for bigger radios in remote locations, 
probably powered by gasoline generators a la the 
coast-watcher set ups.

You and I could have cobbled up something usable from 
whatever junk we could have scrounged.  Were there 
Phillipine hams?

73,
Al


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