[Milsurplus] Re: Milsurplus Digest, Vol 56, Issue 23

[Hue Miller]

> HF portable sets have always been in much
 shorter supply than ANY other variety of 
surplus radios....Third, always the first be be 
passed out under the counter to various other 
countries by our government. Like the TRC-10's
(& maybe Pogo Sticks) that went to Angola & China,
 the BC-1306's & BC-611's that went to Thailand & 
Vietnam, or the extremely varied array of types that 
went to Israel, Cuba, South & Central America. Ask 
yourself when our European allies finally started 
dumping BC-1306's & GRC-9's!
> KB0SFP

Well, now, TRC-10s and Pogo Sticks to Angola. Say
whut? I'd probably need to see some proof of that. Why
would the Portugese colonials want a CW only rig with
no parts support, or a short range single channel 
mechanically complicated heavy HF voice rig?  Ditto 
China - the Guomintang could afford (or demand) better
rigs from their sponsors, the USA.  BC-1306 and BC-611
to Thailand, okay; to VietNam, of course you mean with
the French colonial forces.
I don't think the big dump of GRC-9s took place until
the collapse of the USSR bloc, did it?  -Hue K7HUE