[Milsurplus] Pogo stick at Guadalcanal

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

No.  Ihe Pogo Stick was used throughout most if not all of the Italian 
Campaign.  It worked much better than the other two portables.  The reason is 
easy to understand.  Its antenna is much longer than the one on the BC-611.  
And its ground plane is also much better, being a metal rod.  And it worked 
better than the BC-1000 because at 40 to 48 MC and with the short antenna, 
the latter is getting on toward mostly line-of-sight.  In the jungle, the 
BC-1000 worked OK with the range extension antenna (RC-292) but I doubt that 
they had any of those that early.

In a message dated 10/09/2017 18:35:20 PM Central Daylight Time, 
Kargo_cult at msn.com writes: 
> I noted in reading the Radio News special for Feb. 1944, that it talks 
> about in the Guadalcanal campaign, 
> 
>  the 'guidon set' SCR-511 ( "511 set" )   ( BC-745 )  were better for 
> distance than BC-611 ( SCR-536 ) or BC-1000 ( SCR-300 ). 
> 
> A small revelation to me, as I'd thought the 511 set was used overseas 
> only in North Africa and later, the Aleutians.
> 
>  -Hue 
> 
> 
> 

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