[Milsurplus] AA in Sicily and Italy (factoids)

[mikea]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 06:59:03AM -0500, David Stinson wrote:
> Hue Miller wrote:

> > "Our SCR-177 sets have functioned quite well...

> Of course... BC-191/375, the King of WWII field transmitters.
> Way more reliable and easy to use than that stuffy, pretentious
> blow-hard BC-610 ;-).

> > but the SCR-543s have not been reliable for any distance over 15 miles.
> > SCR284 and SCR-593 sts have been satisfactory for limited ranges only.

> Well, duh!  Those sets are only supposed to work over
> short ranges,  especially that over-rated SCR-284.
> Who briefed this guy?

Most likely he got handed a truckload of SCR-177, SCR-543, SCR-284, and 
SCR-593, and told "Use these. It's what we can give you." That's a T-shirt 
I have multiple copies of.

I'm reminded of a lovely old Virgil Partch cartoon showing troops in the 
field running to some airdropped boxes, where one soldier has a box open
and shouts "Hot damn! Requisition blanks!"

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin