[Milsurplus] SCR-284 installation varieties?

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Interesting.  As we've (some of us maybe the hard way) learned, what was done 
didn't always follow the "book".  And for that matter, the majority of the TM 
11-2700 series have 1945 dates (written after the fact).

I have a photo around here somewhere showing a PE-103 in a Jeep in Italy 
powering a BC-1306.  But you can't tell from the photo how they were powering the 
receiver.

Another SCR-284 odd installation is shown in the SCR-284 manuals.  Radio is 
mounted in what I'm sure must be one of the early half ton Command Cars (very 
few were built) on the FM-41 behind the drivers seat and in front of the left 
rear passemger seat.  It is, according to the instructions, secured to the 
vehicle by two (only) canvas straps.  And the battery cables run forward to the 
left of the drivers seat, out the side of the vehicle and into the engine 
compartment where the hot lead (plus or minus depending on how the vehicle was 
wired) is attached directly to the stud on the starter relay (solenoid).  The 
battery cable that was attached to that point is attached to the stud on the 
terminal on the end of the hot lead.  I always wondered what the purpose of those 
two studs was.

Can you imagine how securely those two canvas straps held the radio in place? 
 :-)  FWIW, the 3/4 ton Command Car installation manual does not show the 
SCR-284 at all.  And there is no installation manual for the 1/2 ton, or at least 
none listed in FM 21-6.

In a message dated 10/1/2006 9:40:10 PM Central Daylight Time, 
kargo_cult at msn.com writes: 
> Other day saw a couple period photos of jeeps with SCR-284. One clearly had 
> the
> sawed-down FM-41 mounted on, i think, the wheel well on the driver side. The 
> other
> also had the radio on the driver side, but it was in the space between 
> driver seat and
> wheel well, against wall of course. The PE-103 was in the space between 
> driver and 
> passenger seat. It was not evident in this photo whether a sawed -down FM-41 
> was
> under the radio or if the radio  rested on some kind of shelf that was part 
> of the jeep.
> Input? Tnx-  Hue Miller

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