[Milsurplus] Guadalcanal japanese transmitter

[wf2u at ws19ops.com]

Bruce,

Thanks... That's the one I was referring to, but I just didn't  
remember in which issue.  As I mentioned, it's likely that  the  
Japanese had similar installations on most if not all the islands they  
occupied.

73, Meir WF2U

Quoting Bruce MacMillan <radio at telus.net>:

> In the April 1943 issue of QST there are some photos of captured
> Japanese radio equipment that was put back into service by the Marines.
> It was somewhere in the Solomon Islands but no specific island was named.
> One comment was "Jap equipment, largely copied from American designs, is
> efficient, substantially built and of surprising power and range".
>
> Bruce   ve7mt
>
> On 3/23/2010 6:24 AM, wf2u at ws19ops.com wrote:
>> In one of the 1945 (or maybe even 1944, forgot which month)there is an
>> article with photos describing putting into service some Japanese high
>> power HF transmitters which were found at the Japanese base after the
>> island was taken by US forces. I'm not sure what island the article is
>> dealing with, without looking again at the article.
>>
>> 73, Meir WF2U
>> Landrum, SC
>>
>>
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