[Milsurplus] Help wanted in South Texas with M4 Sherman Radios

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Group,

An aquaintance from years past from Mission, TX was at the Brent Mullins' MV 
open house this week.  He has an M4 Sherman (I forgot to ask which variant) 
with an SCR-508 (or more likely SCR-528) installed.  He knows essentially 
nothing about radios and had an older gentleman helping him.  But the helper's 
health has gotten so bad that he can't crawl into the tank any more.  The radios 
have supposedly been thoroughly gone through (on the bench) and supposedly work 
fine.  But the tank's owner needs someone to check out the radio and 
interphone associated wiring in the tank, and do the final antenna tuning tweaks on the 
BC-604.  He has been warned that he can't legally use the transmitter but 
needs the interphone working and wants to be able to answer "yes" if someone asks 
whether the radio works or not.

Mission is 6 or 7 hours from Houston even if I had the time to be gone for 
three or four days.  If there's anyone on the list within easy driving distance 
who could do the checkout, the owner would be quite appreciative.  He will of 
course pay for the work (although as I knew I couldn't go and do it, we didn't 
discuss rates).  If anyone can take care of it, contact me direct and I'll 
add a few details and supply name, address and phone number.

Robert Downs - Houston
<http://www.wa5cab.com> (Web Store)
MVPA 9480
<wa5cab at cs.com> (Primary email)
<wa5cab at houston.rr.com> (Backup email)