[Milsurplus] Philippine guerilla radio?

[Hue Miller]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray V." <w2ec@attglobal.net>


> Guys, what supply chain? Keep in mind it was quite a while after the 
> fall of the Philippines before there was any re-supply. The guerilla's 
> used what was scavenged from the original garrisons (Brit, US, Aussie 
> etc) before the occupation, obviously all pre-WW-II gear, plus captured 
> Jap gear or made there own stuff from parts from civilian radios and 
> there is even one known instance where the tube and other parts from the 
> audio amplifier section of a 16mm motion picture projector was used to 
> make a transmitter. It was from this kind of cobbled together gear that 
> word even got out that there WAS a guerilla force in operation on the 
> Philippines. Also, this was all primarily CW stuff, contrary to what you 
> see in the movies, there was very little if any AM radio activity used 
> by the guerilla forces until resupply started up.

Ray, i agree wholeheartedly with what you posted. There was no supply
chain until the Allies began approaching again.
The cobbled-gear business, do you have any reading sources on that
kind of thing you could cite?

Years ago, i was waiting in a barbershop, and happened to grab a 
Playboy to read. Yes, read....   There was a fiction story in there
about the P.I. guerillas...one scene has a monitor in ? West Coast
USA? Navy base slam down his headphones in disgust, because
the signal was so chirpy. Text of story also said it was due to home
made coils on bamboo forms...don't remember much else. Of course,
like almost all fiction, it was fatally unauthentic...the radio op would
have kept going, trying to get all he possibly could, chirp or no.
Hue