[Milsurplus] Operation Market Garden

[Jack Antonio]

Hi all

Last night the History Channel had
a program about operation Market
Garden, and the reasons for the 
operations failure.

One of the reasons listed was
the failure of the communications
equipment, and they recreated the
communications by using what they
called a 68 set, a backpack portable
in communciation with a base set, which
was not identified but looked like a 19
set. 

Their conclusion was that the radios
simply lacked the range to be effective.

But wasn't there more to it than that? 

Wasn't there some problem in wrong channels
being supplied, or incompatible equipment
being used?



Jack Antonio WA7DIA
scr287 at sbcglobal.net