[Milsurplus] Cumshaw, Midnite Shopping

[Hue Miller]

I thought about this some more and recalled the accounts of equipment
appropriated by needful units. Even jeeps. So I conclude it would not
be impossible to get an ARB - altho were we talking about Henderson
Field, Guadalcanal? where keeping the available planes operational was 
critical. It still seems there had to be a better scrounging choice than
the ARB, which only tunes in HF, the 49m  6 Mc/s international band.
Okay for Tokyo Rose, but to receiver w. coast USA HF stations during
daylight hours you'd want higher frequency coverage. What else
could one grab? I dunno. If you could grab an HRO/ RAS or RBO
or RAO, you would be set, assuming you could reach the camp's
115/60/1 AC supply.   Some GI types built their own simple 
receivers of 2 tubes or so. At least the parts, headphones, and 
batteries were easy to come by, or easier. I have seen a couple
submissions in old radio mags of GI-built radio schematics.
The elder Newkirk, who was on QST staff, before retiring,
told in an article about an Oz HRO, the AMR-101, being
appropriated for SWL listening, by his group in the So.
Pacific. I don't think he was a combat type tho, so that
maybe gave him a better "selection".  -Hue Miller