[Milsurplus] Why No Keying Bugs - individual keying characterstics

[Hue Miller]

>Hue:
>
>Do you have any believable idea of the date of the Okinawa photo(s)?
>The reason I ask is that a good friend ran the (Army) intercept
>station on the north slope north of Nago, and has described a wooden
>building full of SP-200 receivers, and the (encrypted) RTTY circuit
>back to Manila.  Also describes copying scheduled news via RTTY off
>the commercial circuits.  Never nentioned TBXs, however.  In any
>event, I'm sure he would like to see a copy of any contemporaneous
>photo from 1945.  He landed in Oki at the tail end of the fighting as
>the caves were being cleaned out, and stayed until the end of the
>war.  His was one of the sites which received the Japanese surrender
>message and forwarded it on down to MacArthur.
>
>George Munsch
>

This photo is one from a Navy publicity series, packs of about 5 or 7 photos 
each,
small size like 4x5, no bigger. I don't recall which series that was. This 
was a small
installation pictured, at least what you can see, with only a few TTY 
machines.

There are some decent photos in the other packs. One shows a TBX being
used on beach on Roi island ( Kwaj atoll, i think ) and another shows a
TBX "being used" on deck of a ship - staged photo for camera.

I read somewhere, maybe in one of Kahn's books, that when the Japanese
stations contacted US stations re the surrender communications, they came
back on the air at a crisp 20+ something WPM "as if there had been only
a momentary interruption since 1941".
I will "eventually" post some of these photos.
Photos, i recall also Rolley Michaelis (may he be in peace) telling me that
Marines in a Photo unit on Saipan had a cottage industry in making
souvenir photos and selling packs of 12 for $10 to rear-echelon and
support group visitors to the island. High price for that time, very high,
but as he said, "there was nothing to spend money on".  -Hue Miller