[Milsurplus] MRC-20

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OK.

The BC-610 (actually the installation is called SCR-499) in a Jeep is really 
official.  It was apparently done for 18th AB Corps.  Instructions are in TM 
11-2715, Change 1, dated 26 January 1945.  Used PE-75 instead of PE-95.

In a message dated 3/7/2009 4:49:33 PM Central Standard Time, 
smithab11 at comcast.net writes: 
> That's why I stuck with the tag  "Radio Jeep" as it was typical of a 
> fabrication by an Air Force Unit (especially a TCS----  :-) ------), many 
> "radio jeeps" and trucks were  thrown together  by the USAF during the 
> Korean war and later in Vietnam and other conflicts because the an entire 
> equipment package that was  needed was not in the inventory or available 
> from supply channels.. Somewhere  there was  was a jeep with a BC-610 
> mounted on it.  A lot of the radio jeeps were simple used as a test bed for 
> radio maintenance and or "gofer" or flight line jeeps.
> 

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