[Milsurplus] Philippine guerilla radio?

[Hue Miller]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Klase" <skywaves@bw.webex.net>

> The BC-474 (SCR-288) did use the GN-44.  Is it especially 
> easy to crank?
> 
No- but it's a  piece of cake compared to the BC-654.

> 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."
> 
Very interesting. I never have seen elsewhere that there
was that much radio operation from guerilla forces.
I would guess that the SCR-300 was for coordinating
rendezvous with submarines, landing operations.
Hue