[Milsurplus] PRC-25 versus Type 63

[Hubert Miller]

My question about Vietnam field radio: the standard US forces manpack radio was the AN/PRC-25, something like 30 to 76 MHz,
1 to 2 watts out. The Cong pack radio was the Chinese Type 63, 1.5 to 6 MHz, maybe 1 watt, and you can imagine with a whip
antenna, no ground, at those freqs, the output had to be miniscule. But it would suffer less from vegetation absorption. So unless
you were at a fixed location and could rig up a wire antenna, the PRC-25 probably came out ahead, right?

While spurred me to write this email was looking at Youtube at a Vietnam documentary, "A Walk in the Sun".
https://www.google.com/search?q=a+walk+in+the+sun+documentary+vietnam&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS902US902&oq=a+walk+in+the+sun+documentary+vietnam&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgWGB4yCggCEAAYgAQYogQyCggDEAAYgAQYogQyBggEEEUYQNIBCTE2MjYyajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:aa77a3dd,vid:gpbOPdtXFz8,st:0

Same name as a WWII era movie, which i saw part of, but which seemed pretty corny.
The Vietam doc was done, believe it or not, by a high school history class in 2009. High school in my day seems infantile compared to this.
Actually, i think it was mostly just to keep young people off the streets. The Vietnam doc seems to me, pretty well done.
It was written up, how the doc was done, in Vietnam magazine, December 2012.
Attached a still from the doc, GI with PRC-25.
-Hue Miller

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