[Milsurplus] RBZ vs RBZ Special? Info From A Complete RBZ Special Manual - Addition

[Mike Morrow]

Bruce wrote:

> In his book "The Clandestine Radio Operators" Jean-Louis Perquin 
> documents its use by French resistance networks and SAS from June to 
> September 1944.
> There is a photo in the book of an RBZ special being used by a member of 
> the Free French 4 SAS.

The real question is...how do you know from a photo that the set is
a RBZ (Special) and not just a RBZ?  That's almost a hard as it is to
distinguish a RT-505/PRC-25 from a RT-841/PRC-77 visually...you can't
without being able to read some small detail that will not be shown in
any photo.  It is not apparent to me what the advantage would be for
clandestine operations to have the RBZ (Special) rather than the RBZ.
The RBZ comes with an antenna cord that clips to a metal helmet, as
apparently the essentially identical RBZ (Special) did.  Obviously
some other sort of antenna would be used for clandestine ops.

Mike / KK5F