The one with the thick antenna is a PRC-41.  The other one looks to me like two PRC-8/9/10 radios strapped together.   You can see that there are two antennas on the guy's back.

PRC-8 (20 .. 27.9 MHz) was meant for Armour,
PRC-9 (27 .. 38.9 MHz) was meant for Artillery and
PRC-10 (38 .. 54.9 MHz) for Infantry.

Tom
N3AJA

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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