[Milsurplus] TCM/RAS in M-2-4 truck

[Ray Fantini]

No, perhaps it was equipment removed from some unfortunate ship?  National use to have an advertisement on the back of every war time issue of QST promoting proudly that three of every four ships in the Navy were equipped with a national receiver and often pictured an HRO.
In one advertisement there was a story of a HRO that was on a liberty ship that was run aground on the great barrier reef and although the paint was removed by Diesel oil and having been submerged multipole times the receiver after being cleaned up was fully functional and then there was the one showing the German copy of a captured HRO, think all that HRO propaganda is what drove me to spend way too much time and money on putting together a fully functional HRO RAS in the first place.

Ray F/KA3EKH

From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Thekan, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 1:32 PM
To: 'milsurplus at mailman.qth.net' <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [Milsurplus] TCM/RAS in M-2-4 truck

When I was in High School 40+ years ago and going through what were war time issues of Look or Life magazine I came across a photo that grabbed my attention and held it to this day.

It was two photos from the Pacific Theater , one showed a shirtless radio operator with what I know now to be a RAS rcr and to his left a partial view of a TCM xmtr. At the time I thought the rcvr was like my HRO 7R and the transmitter had all these meters going across it and it wasn't until I got my TCM and by complete coincidence had my RAS next to it that it triggered that memory of the photo that I had seen when I was 17 yo.

The other photo showed the truck and a trailer( I think the 1 ton trailer) unhitched and some ways back from the truck which must have had the generator either a PE 95 or maybe a PE 75.  There were a few palm trees in the background with the palms all shot off and just the trunks of the trees left standing.

I'd really like to find what magazine it was in. Has anybody else ever seen those photos?

Paul
N6FEG
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