[Milsurplus] Foxhole Radio

[J. Forster]

An AC powered radio takes far more stuff than a simple battery set. I've
not gone looking for first-hand accounts.

And there is a big difference between Foxhole radios and canteen radios
and how/where they were used. Apples and oranges.

-John

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Forster
> OTOH, in a POW camp, I can think of no plausible reason why a prisoner
> would have any batteries what ever.
> -John
>
> If you read the accounts of camp radios, you learn that power was not
> the main problem, vacuum tubes and parts were. Batteries could be
> bartered for, with corrupt guards, or camp power used, with home
> built rectifier. I don't recall now how, in one Pacific account I read,
> the rectification was accomplished, but that is how the radio was
> powered.
> Again: how many accounts of 'Foxhole Radios' have you come across?
> -Hue
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