[Milsurplus] 3BZ

[John Kidd]

Hi all,

I believe this may have been the WS-133 made by Amalgamated Wireless 
Australasia (the original AWA)

Photos of this set are on the Australian War Memorial website. It was 
deployed in Borneo, Pacific Islands,
Bouganville, Philipines, etc. and even mounted in a jeep. It is very large.

http://www.awm.gov.au/search/collections/?q=ws-133&conflict=second+world+war%2C+1939-1945&submit=Search

It was even used in Australia during WWII broadcasting wrong 
information to fool the enemy. It was based near
a prisoner of war camp. While searching a German prisoner's bunk they 
found a listing of what was being transmitted.
It turned out that he was reading the morse from the flickering camp 
lights. That was soon fixed.

John Kidd VK3FPRC

At 05:48 25/09/2011, Hue Miller wrote:
>He mentions a big 50 or 100 watt AC-powered transmitter used by a 
>more powerful relay station.
>I don't really have a clue what transmitter this was. I thought 
>briefly, BC-191, but
>I think he would have mentioned the stack of TUs. I thought briefly 
>JT-350, but he said specifically
>"transmitter". Maybe some other Australian product, as Australia was 
>already the source of the
>standard Philippine guerilla radios. OR - this occurred to
>me - maybe a TBW ? That might make sense.