[Milsurplus] MAB

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I didn't see whatever photo you refer to.  The MAB had (counting MAB), six 
different nomenclatures.  It began as MP, and was issued with fix-tuned 
antennas to cover 500 KC or 600 KC sub-bands.  If you needed to move it out of 
the sub-band, you needed a different antenna.  Then they assigned MU, MV, MW 
and MX to the four sub bands.  Finally, they called it MAB and issued it 
with a tunable antenna to cover the entire 2300-4600 KC range.

Robert Downs - Houston
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In a message dated 04/20/2015 15:50:44 PM Central Daylight Time, 
kargo_cult at msn.com writes: 
> Tim, really interesting photo. Does look, i admit, hard to call it 
> anything else but a probable MAB with first style antenna, which was new to me. I 
> wonder how the coil in it was adjusted?Of course, we do not know the 
> provenance of the photo. Doesn't have the look of a trainingexercise, tho, but 
> who can tell?It kind of amuses me, the enthusiasm shown in France for the 
> U.S. Marines. But then, theyhave a pretty good contingent of Wehrmacht 
> reenactors too. Kind of puts the lie to the imagehere of cheese-loving pacifists. 
> I may have the book, published in France, where that photo appears. I'll 
> have to have a searchmission, tho, to find it. 
> Some here have seemed to have said the Marines got the junk no one else 
> wanted. Looks to memore like the Marines got everything everyone else used, 
> old and newest, and maybe more.Guy at a hamfest showed me a LINK ( the 
> company ) walkie-talkie class radio, in M.C. markedbag, that i'd never seen 
> before anywhere.-Hue ( "Without clay tablets, we wouldn't still have Gilgamesh" 
> )    

Robert Downs - Houston
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MVPA 9480