[MRCG] Fwd: Project WASHTUB comms

[Thomas Murphy]

Interesting radio, I wonder many are still around?? Probably pretty pricey
if you find one.

I stumbled across this on the internet, Operation Tracer, guys who would
have stayed behind if the Germans had taken Gibraltar in WWII.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tracer


 
Tom, W6TOM


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The RS-6 sets came out in 1951 which fits nicely. Here is some more
information including a mention of it's use by 'stay behind' agents in
Europe.  
I'm liking the RS-6 as a Washtub radio candidate even more..... 
 
http://cryptomuseum.com/spy/rs6/index.htm
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/1/2014 5:47:09 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
timsamm at gmail.com writes:

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-s
tay-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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