[Milsurplus] Under a Jarvis Moon

[Hue Miller]

I tonite watched a DVD documentary, "Under a Jarvis Moon", about the 
colonists the U.S. planted on Baker,
Jarvis, and Howland Islands to secure the U.S. claim to those outposts in 
the time of increasing tension in
East Asia. ( I think this DVD is O.O.P. but the video can be seen 
elsewhere. )  At 22:34 there is a shot of
a radio. I'm guessing it's a Coast Guard radio. It's about the size of a 
BC-654, has a removable front cover,
and is divided evenly between the radio in top and storage section below. 
There are 3 meters on the
radio: left side, middle, and right side, and it appears that the right hand 
1/3 is the receiver. Due to its
compactness, I am sure it would be regenerative circuit. ( I don't know how 
to do a still screen copy of this
image. )  Anyway I thought I'd enter this data point here, just in case 
someone knows what this radio was,
or encounters another image of it.
Howland was bombed by 12 Japanese planes Dec. 8, 1942, killing two of the 
four colonists; the other two,
with water running out, and the resupply postponed, were finally retrieved 
Feb. 1942. 'Howland Light',
the modest sized lighthouse, was destroyed in the bombing.

Unfortunately this documentary completely omits any mention of the ham radio 
activity by these colonists.
I believe it was in RADIO magazine that I read an account of their DXing 
activities, which were classic.
Absolutely zero man made noise there, and a vast reflective surface all 
around. In one frame shown in
the documentary, a sign on Howland ( or Jarvis ? unclear ) shows the 
callsign K6INF.
via:
Hue Miller