[Milsurplus] SCR-399

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Well, yeah, but your average rice-burner rig doesn't come with a lighted 
shelter with a door you can close if the mosquitoes get bad, and with a 
deuce-and-a-half capable of getting up and down the Katy Freeway on a rainy July 
afternoon like yesterday.  So it isn't all better.  Check out all the drowned out 
rice burner sedans on the evening news.  And we only had about 12 inches of rain 
in this immediate area.

In a message dated 7/27/2006 7:08:27 PM Central Daylight Time, 
kk5f at earthlink.net writes: 
> >BTW, Rick, the SCR-399 isn't Portable, it's Mobile.
> 
>    WWII  "portable"  gear  includes  such  creampuffs  as the 250 lb. TBW
>    transmitter system and the associated 170 lb. generator, alongside the
>    associated 150  lb. RBM receiver system and auxillaries, and who knows
>    how  much for  the fairly  eleborate antenna system, batteries for the
>    receivers,  and  spares!   All resulting in a 100 watt CW / 25 watt AM
>    station.
> 
>    It  sure  makes  one  appreciate modern solid state HF gear and CW/SSB
>    when  one  actually  wants to put out a decent signal from the boonies
>    now-a-days.
> 

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