[Milsurplus] more RS-6 radio use

[Bill Strangfeld]

Here is an interesting but inconclusive fragment found on the web.  The
radio described by K5DZE sounds like the RS-6 and the fragment implies SF
use of the RS-6 in 1963-64.  The URL where it is found is
<http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/topics/machines/p_machines_comm.htm#radio
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Radio Memories of Ltc Bob Paterson
(USMC, USA Ret) by Bob Patterson K5DZE

I am a retired LTC from the Army and before that was a radio operator for
several years in the Marines in the late 50's and early 60's. I was a CW op
in a Force Recon unit and I remember we used some very small gear that we
borrowed from the Special Forces in about '63 or '64 that was supposedly
very classified at the time. It was two units (rcvr / xmtr) about 5" to 6"
square and had a small CW key that swiveled out of the side of the xmtr. The
rig ran about 10-15 watts and worked pretty well! Largest part of the system
was the hand crank generator! (I recall that I thought the whole thing would
be a nice little rig for Ham Radio Hi!) You might know something about this
gear... Boy that was a long time ago!!

I just can not remember much about the little CW rig that I mentioned, as I
only got to use it for a few days. The SF had only 2 or 3 of these little
rigs and we got one to try out. I got to work it and made a contact from a
NC field site to another Marine Recon team we had training along a Florida
coast line. As I remember I set the freq from a chart that was
attached...dialed in one or two controls according to the chart and then it
was ready. We used a short pre made dipole and it worked pretty good. I also
used the old ANGRC 9 on CW a lot. Clunky but good an reliable.



----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Arney [mailto:hankarn at pacbell.net]
Sent: 1/25/2005 11:38:05 AM
To: windy10605 at juno.com
Cc: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: Fw: Re: [Milsurplus] Re:  RS-6 Radio use

> The continual repeat of this RS-6 thread is going to exceed the text of
> War & Peace and never come up with a conclusive answer.
> Hank
> KN6DI