[Milsurplus] Ricebox hams on WW2 warships...

[mikea]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:40:17PM -0500, D C *Mac* Macdonald wrote:
> 
> The KWM-2A was a variant of the KWM-2 ham transceiver. 
> The 'A' indicated that a separate crystal board was added 
> to provide operation on frequencies other than those offered 
> by the standard 'ham' KWM-2.  This variant was commissioned 
> (so to speak) by the US Air Force to provide an easily deployable 
> HF comm capability. 

[snip]

> US embassies all over the world used them.  I'd guess that they 
> were being used during the final evacuations from Viet Nam! 

A friend who was there assures me he saw 'dozers burying hundreds of
KWM-2As at TSN. He had been in charge of training ARVN operators and  
techs in their maintenance and operation, and is someone I believe    
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I wonder how many were resurrected by Charlie. 

War is waste.

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin