[Milsurplus] RE:Radio in USMC Gun Motor Carriage 75mm M3

[Hue Miller]

> Muzzle blast from the 75mm M1897A5 made it nearly impossible for anyone to 
> stay in the front of the vehicle when the gun was being fired.  On the other 
> hand, I guess the auxiliary control box would have made it possible to operate 
> the radio from the back of the vehicle.
> 
> Incidentally, the OK City veteran still insists that they only had a 
> receiver.
> Robert Downs - Houston

He was on that kind of vehicle?
The manual was definitely for the pair-up. However, i suppose it wouldn't be
too offbeat, that maybe only a "lead vehicle" or ground equivalent to 
squadron or flight leader, to have the two-way?

Remember that ARB + TA-12 pair-up in a wooden chest that was on Epay a few
months back ( unreasonable minimum, no home found for that weird child ), that
had been assembled by Alaska Land or Fisheries or similar Dep't ?  Like the SPG
RU-GF, this task would have been better done by an off-the-shelf boat radio of
the type built right up to WW2 - but i suppose all boat radio manufacturers 
instead converted to "military production" !
BTW, what was an SPG? Not a TD, was this basically just a rifle ( to use the
Art'y lingo ) on a mobile chassis? So what would be the radio use? Not to
Art'y observer, would it be? -Hue Miller ( who still regrets not buying  that
RU-GF, Navy built AC supply when it was offered to him. ) ( and who still
remembers RU receivers for  $2.99 in Seattle surpus store. )