[Milsurplus] GRC-109 Prices

[Hue Miller]

> ......  Related a story about running the GN-58 with one hand and talking
> into the T-17 with the other on one occasion.
>   Gotta be a neat trick!
> 
> Dennis D. W7QHO
> Glendale, CA

CQ magazine many years ago had a photo of a missionary in New Guinea
seated at a GN-58 and BC-1306 posing for the same thing.  However,
as i realized many years later, this had to be a staged photo. I'm sure
he had some serf cranking the rig while he operated. The only way, i'm
convinced, to do the one-man thing is to wear a throat mic. The problem
with one arm cranking is you have a hellacious unbalanced load on a 
framework that for one thing, isn't stable enuff for this. Try it!

Also some years ago i recall a claimed WW2 veteran regaled me with
his tales of using a BC-474 by himself, same kind of deal, on supposed
one-man patrols in the frozen northlands. I later realized that almost 
nothing of what he recounted made sense, and i was very puzzled as
to why someone in the twilight of his life would see it worthwhile to
regale me with  such elemenatary BS. Not to denigrate veterans at all,
but there are some few, even ones who were in combat, who are pretty
skilled at what i call "streaming BS', i mean they have the rare skill to
adlib nonsense crap on the moment.

It occurred to me that most probably the French forces used GRC-9s
in their war to reclaim the Indochina colonies. Then after they pulled
out, the VietMinh and VietCong probably also used captured GRC-9s.
Remember, the GRC-9 remained in use at least thru the 1960s.
-Hue Miller