[Milsurplus] Question about Parasets

Bruce MacMillan radio at telus.net
Fri Sep 17 18:19:31 EDT 2010


  Yes, there were quite a few using miniature tubes. I only gave some 
examples of clandestine radios of which the paraset belongs.

It's interesting to see the wide use of American valves in WW2 British & 
other European rigs. I guess the demand for radio equipment was so big, 
so fast, that any source would do.

Bruce   ve7mt

On 9/17/2010 2:45 PM, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> There were a number of other US built sets that used the 1.4 and 2.8 volt
> tubes.  Besides the RBZ, the Navy had the MAB and it's several 2-Letter
> predecessors, the DAV, MAW and the (can't think of it right now - Navy BC-721).
> Signal Corps built the BC-611, BC-721, BC-1000 and some battery operated
> test equipment.  Probably others I'm not recalling.
>


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