[Milsurplus] AN/TRC-10 Puzzlement, continued

[Bob kb8tq]

Hi

There’s always a meeting about this kind of stuff. It goes more or less like “let’s fix this, that and the other thing”.
Ok, it’ll take X months and Y dollars, are we going to do it? ….. hmmm ….. there’s a war on ….. 

Bob

> On Aug 13, 2018, at 2:06 AM, Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:
> 
> A short note with some more puzzlements about the U.S. radio AN/TRC-10.
> Reading more of the paper from Pilot Radio Co. from April 13-17, 1945 I note:
> Suggestions made include changing transmitter band from 2-5 and 5-12 MHz to 2-6 and 6-12 MHz.
> Nameplate to be actually a separate piece and not just painted on front panel. Operating instruction
> sheet to be fixed to inside surface of front cover. Specifications to numerous mechanical parts and fittings
> as well as some component changes. ( Like C-202 i recall, suggested change to 'bathtub' capacitor. )
> However, in the TRC-10s we have seen, such changes were NOT implemented, so what happened ?
> The number out there, albeit small, are not "pre production models".  Was there really that much of
> a rush, and why ? The radio is clearly a guerilla, behind enemy lines type thing, but where in mid 1945
> would such be needed ? The Philippines had been invaded and the heyday of the Philippine guerilla was
> well past. A land invasion of Japan wouldn't have required such a radio. China ? Or – maybe somehow
> connected to rescue missions, raids to free Allied POWs in farflung Japanese camps, where they were
> threatened with massacre as Japan's fortune declined ? 
> -Hue Miller 
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