[Milsurplus] World War II Radio Functions

[Hue Miller]

I recently saw a photo, from a war magazine of a few years back, 
showing a Navy intercept operation using rows of RAOs. My 
impression is that intercept operations seemed to use what we 
might think of as pretty mundane receiving equipment - HRO 
included.

Which makes me recall something i read about the capture of
Guam. The Japanese rounded up all the radio ops except a 
few ( most famously missing George Tweed, the "Ghost of 
Guam" ). In the log books they found some Q signal they didn't
recognize, which they mistook for a station call letter, or some
code, and they mistreated some of the radio ops, trying to get 
them to spill what this Q signal meant. I don't recall the source
on this reading, but it's in my deep archives somewhere.

( I always thought Geo. Tweed, in his postwar post-Navy career,
should have done some ads for Zenith or Hallicrafters: "What 
receiver does the 'Ghost of Guam' recommend ? Hallicrafters-
The Radioman's Choice!" )

Have you ever seen a photo of the typical Navy buildings at 
Miraviles and other Philippine sites, the buildings up on concrete
pillars, and lots of windows? I have a photo in a Japanese 
book, portraying a Japanese receiving station set up in one of 
those same buildings.  -Hue Miller KA7LXY