Hugh,

The most used squad radios in Vietnam before 1968 were members of the PRC-8/9/10 family.  This is consistent with the long aspect radio seen in the sets in the picture.  I don't know about the fat antenna.  MAY would have been pretty obsolete by this time.

AL



On 6/24/2024 6:16 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:

I am posting a photo from an article in ‘Vietnam’ magazine, Summer 2023, p54. The radio just to left of the chopper nose, what is it?
The antenna is “fatter” than a PRC-25 antenna, isn’t it? Couldn’t be something like an MAY, could it?

 

Also: Cessna O-2 Skymaster has a wire antenna from ( looks like ) cockpit to left side tail. What radio would that be for, an HF radio ?

and: The crew on something like Ontos M50, which i think was a more specialized job, were those crew also draftees or enlisted?

( I don’t know how quickly you could train people to operate such armored vehicle. )

thanks-

Hue Miller 


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