[Milsurplus] ] Spy Radio instructional Film

[Hue Miller]

Yes – I forgot to mention that. It would be nice to have been able to buy it surplus right off
the table there, and skip the mishandling and damages involved in the surplus-lot transactions after the
war.
I really wondered where that “home station” was located. Not much growing around there! Would that
maybe be North Africa?

I also had to wonder: with a radio this compact and adaptable and  workable, why were not these supplied
to the Philippine islands anti-Japan guerrillas? Or maybe there were, to some extent? But I have already
read that for the most part, the radios used there were a combination of mostly Australian  equipment,
some hodepodge of various US military radios, and even homebuilt transmitter-receivers. The SSTR-1
puts out as much power as the Australian 3BZ coastwatcher radio, at a fraction of the size and weight!
The 3BZ was a 2 or 3 man haul, JUST for the radio itself! 

BTW, I have been rethinking the U.S. Navy CMS radio. I had formerly called it “crude”, but I have to admit
the quality of construction is top-notch, nothing homebrew amateurish about it. The only crude looking 
thing is, the childishly drawn schematic supplied with it. It does have the feature of high compactness,
only 2 tube types throughout, skip distance high frequencies, and sufficient power output. PLUS it has
the little recognized feature that the transmitter could accommodate a number of different pentodes
OR triodes in the 6 volt or even 1.5 volt battery tubes. Maybe the main drawback that there never was
much in the way of power supplies for it, just the one unnamed handcrank gen for the transmitter.
My total guess on it now is, maybe produced in the panic time after Dec. 7, 1941; for the Philippine
islands trade; but maybe denied this job as newer and “better” radios were supplied, in the 1943-
1945 narrow time frame. Total guesswork.
-Hue

From: Ray 
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 3:59 PM
To: Hue Miller 
Subject: Re: [Glowbugs] Spy Radio instructional Film

      Interesting Hue.  Also a very nice looking SX-28 or 28A receiver at the end.

      Ray, W5XE