[Milsurplus] Fw: Fwd: WWII Mobile Control Tower at Malang

[Chuck]

Sound like it could have been a SCR-299.  That came in a Dodge Panel truck 
with a BC-610/BC-312 set up.  This would have given them contact on H.F. 
Power was supplied via a PE-95 in a trailer pulled behind the truck.

Chuckm
N7UVZ

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Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Fwd: WWII Mobile Control Tower at Malang


> Where are Malang and Jogjakarta?
>
> In a message dated 10/27/2010 4:43:18 PM Central Daylight Time,
> aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org writes:
>> I'm not a ground support guy.  Anyone have any clue to answer Jane's
>> question about the panel truck?
>>
>> Sounds like a Herculean job to make a mock-up of that size...
>>
>>   - Mike  KC4TOS
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject:    WWII Mobile Control Tower at Malang
>> Date:   Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:18:45 -0700 (PDT)
>> From:   Jane Rhem <jsrhem at yahoo.com>
>> To:     AAF-Radio at aafradio.org
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Mike,
>> I came across your website when looking up "communications command set
>> with CW transmitter"....which I found in "/They Fought With What They
>> Had/" by Edmonds.  Page 365 refers to this set being installed into a
>> panel truck by Lt. Stancill Nanney and T/Sgt. R. W. Stephens....and they
>> called it the Mobile Control Tower....used in clearing the B-17s and
>> A-24s for take-offs and landings.
>> Well, I'm wondering if you have any knowledge of that mobile unit first
>> made at Malang and then duplicated at Jogjakarta.
>> R. W. Stephens was my father...and I'm working on putting together a
>> large mock-up of an airfield with B-17, tents, jeep, pilot and crew,
>> radio tent, etc.  Right now I'm trying to find out just what type of
>> panel truck they used....but can't find any reference to it except in
>> this book by Edmonds.  I'm trying to locate Stancill Nanney, if he's
>> still living.
>> So....if you know anything about such a panel truck used as a mobile
>> communications unit I'd love to hear about it!
>> Many thanks for any information!
>> Jane Stephens Rhem
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