[Milsurplus] The Army-Navy Game

[Spike Dennis]

Hue, you touched on a possible case for the MBM. The US NAVY sponsored by far the most extensive clandestine activities in the China/Burma theater. They greatly surpassed all the other intelligence agency. There is even some suggestion that this vast network was enhanced by some profiteering. The Navy Commander's excuse was the element of humanity he needed to deal with. One thing is certain, there was a considerable amount of rivaly between all the angencies active in China. The MBM might well have been the Navy's PRC-1!

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----- Original Message ----
> From: Hue Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com>
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 2:01:25 PM
> Subject: [Milsurplus] The Army-Navy Game
> 
> Just read D. Starks' older on on some site like "Army Radio
> Sales". Probably some of this info is now understood to be
> outdated altho still posted online. As for Navy equipment
> being more advanced, i had to think of the SCR-300
> replacing the TBY and other such sets, and the BC-348
> replacing the RAX. Also the MBM was i'm pretty sure no
> raider radio: it comes packaged in civy-looking suitcases.
> More likely it was the Navy's idea of the PRC-1 type thing,
> possibly intended for SACO use, China, for coast watchers
> and weather stations. But apparently this task was given
> to the humble TBX, which with the Navy modification could
> work up to 7 Mc/s or so, and which handled the task just 
> fine. The MBM was certainly more expensive than the TBX;
> maybe more expensive than the PRC-1; however it seems 
> to me the PRC-1 was a better design and execution than 
> the MBM - i partly chalk that up to Jefferson Travis's typical
> odd ( i think ) mechanical engineering. 
> Whatever flaws the SCR-284 had, it was certainly more 
> rugged than the TBX, and it served thru to the end of the
> war in the Pacific. There's a real nice photo of some GI's 
> wearing rain ponchos listening to the announcement of the
> end of the war over a BC-654 on Okinawa. 
> I recall a couple decades back Tony Grogan and i trying to 
> speculate about the reason for the MBM's wide and tall
> but only a few inches deep design. He guessed it had to
> fit on a makeshift table of some kind. Neither of us guessed
> it was to fit inside a civilian suitcase. 
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