[Milsurplus] GP-x Transmitter, RAX Rcvr? + TU Wanted

[Don Merz]

It's definitely a GP transmitter. I dunno about the
RAX though. The picture is pretty dark. I'll go back
and look at it.

"Victory at Sea" certainly does not come off well
after 50 years. It's great to have all that marvelous
footage. But the jingoistic editing and stirring
martial theme music with planes and tanks constantly
and repeatedly shown rolling off the assembly lines is
all a bit much. 

It also completely glosses over important
controversies such as the US Navy failure to convoy
and protect shipping along USA shores during the first
year+ of the war which led to the second German
submarine "happy time" and incredible losses. King
should have been sacked over that one. But everyone
was afraid of him.

Basically, the movie makes it appear that the US was
always well-armed, always well-organized, always
well-led and always had unlimited resources when that
simply wasn't even close to true during the first 2
years of the war.  

Please forgive the digression.
73, Don Merz, N3RHT


--- "Thekan, Paul" <Paul.Thekan at cpii.com> wrote:

> For what it's worth..(probably not much)
> 
> 
>  In the TV series  "Victory at Sea"  there is one
> episode or a segment
> of one that focused on military operations in South
> America. It showed
> for what maybe lasted all of 2 seconds the interior
> of a gondola of a
> Navy patrol blimp. In it , and I've only seen this
> clip twice, I could
> have sworn I'd seen a GP xmtr and a couple of RAX
> receivers. I could
> really be all wet on this but that's what I thought
> I saw. Maybe if
> someone has this Victory at Sea episode on VHS or
> DVD they could do a
> freeze frame on this scene and verify just what
> exactly is the radio
> gear shown. 
> 
>  Maybe others here in the group have seen this scene
> too and have a
> better take on what was shown in the gondola.
> 
> Paul
> N6FEG
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
> Behalf Of David Stinson
> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 6:31 AM
> To: Milsurplus Radios; ARC5 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Milsurplus] GP-x Transmitter, RAX Rcvr? +
> TU Wanted
> 
> Is there any documentation- or even a credible
> story-
> of an "official" installation of the 
> GP-x series transmitters with the RAX receivers?
> I have no doubt that it was done at some time;
> the boys used whatever they could get and
> cobbled-together
> all kinds of interesting "sets-" but is there a
> credible case for this
> set?
> I'm a "completeist" collector: one who seeks to  
> find every piece for a particular installation.
> After I get my shop built, I'm be forced to make
> some 
> decisions about what sets to build and what to
> sacrifice to 
> space and time considerations.  
> I'd like to use the RAXs and the GP-7.  If there's
> an "honest"
> configuration, I could build one set instead of two.
> Don't want to duplicate the GP/RU because the RU is
> already part
> of the GF/RU set.  The RAXs are "kosher" with the
> ART-13,
> but I've already got an ATC in my AN/ARC-8.
> 
> I'm seeking a "D" range tuning unit for the GP-x
> transmitters.
> I'd even settle for a TDE version for now.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>
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