[Milsurplus] AR-11, AN/PRC-5 and V-100

[Hubert Miller]

I believe I saw a pix of the PRC-5 in a suitcase, with something like a vibrator supply, in one of the books I have on clandestine operations Europe.
Don't want to look for it right now. I'm thinking this was a book published fairly recently in France.

V-100, I wonder if even the Russian museum has a manual. I would guess that those that fell into Russian ham hands after the 1950s maybe were
all taken apart to build ham rigs that covered more than just 80m meters.

BTW, the V-100 shows up in a list of Lend - Lease radios in some Army TM I have. I think it ? may be called "Pilot radio" in that list, which confused
me until I understood that Pilot was merely the manufacturer name. This same list also has the Collins 18Q, known in the U.S.A. as the TCH.
-Hue Miller

>From my perusal of the schematic diagrams, these rigs appear to me to be almost identical, electronically.

So where did the AR-11 originate? The UK?
 
And is the PRC-5 simply a copy of that?

Where were either one used? By whom? Anyone know? Anecdotes? Stories?

Also, I would love to have more detailed information on the V-100. The recent posts by Hugh is the first time I have ever heard of it.

Does anyone have more detailed info on this? Schematics?

Ken W7EKB