[MRCA] Fwd: Project WASHTUB comms

[Rob Flory]

A challenge to say the least.  Long distances to cover, lots of auroral
absorption(although early 1950s was more towards a solar minimum.

Small sized units like GRC-9 or its predecessor would be easy to use and
stash, but something more powerful and with a MF capability like TBW/RBM
might give better results.

RF


On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Tim <timsamm at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Probably many of us have heard about the recently declassified Project
> WASHTUB which hit the news today.  It was an effort to recruit, equip and
> train Alaska residents in the early 1950's to act as "stay behind agents"
> in the event the Soviet Union attacked and occupied Alaska during the early
> days of the cold war.
>
> http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/09/01/military-trained-alaskans-as-stay-behind-agents.html?comp=7000023435700&rank=2
>
> Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to specify the type of
> radio equipment that might be available in the early 1950's to be used in
> this effort.  You would design the training program for operators and
> assist in specifying communications components for the supply caches
> containing this radio equipment.  What radio equipment would be best suited
> for this task?
>
> You have as much time as Ivan will allow...
>
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