[Milsurplus] Looking for information

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 19 Oct 2017 at 14:12, revcom at wbsnet.org wrote:

> ALSO, when working on the
> insides I found a small typewritten  paper label.  It reads:   R. C. Clepper
>                                                                Puunene
> Maui T H
>                                                                KMZR   9/20/43
> 
> I am assuming Mr(?) Clepper was a service person.

Radio operator, at least, and a CW operator too.

> Can anyone advise what "T H" is?  Hawaii?

T H = Territory of Hawaii. Hawaii was made a state much later.

Pu'unene is a small town in Hawaii on Maui. There may have been a military radio station 
there during WWII.

See this;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu%CA%BBunene,_Hawaii

>  Also is KMZR a call sign?

Yes. I would guess the call-sign of a ship, but it may be a shore-side installation.

That call sign is presently assigned to a Spanish Language FM station in Atwater, CA.

>, part
> of the address?

No. Call sign.

> Military call?  Radio station?(I doubt that)

Why would you doubt that it would be a radio station? It MAY have been a military radio 
station call at the time, in fact. 

...Before my radio time. Any
> info?
> 
> Dunno how it got to western Kansas.

Stranger things have happened. I ended up with an RAL-6 receiver which was originally 
used in the fleet sub, USS Pintado. How it ever got to Idaho, I'll never know.

Ken W7EKB

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