[MRCG] Cavalry Radios = The Other Cavalry - WHAT ABOUT THE BC-222 - THE FIRST WALKIE hELLO aLL; /HORSIE TALKIE.

[Michael Kaye]

On 5/13/2015 7:33 PM, Ed Zeranski wrote:
> There is film of US Army soldiers marching north through Italy on 
> mountain trails where the "pogo Stick" can be seen carried over a 
> soldier's shoulder.  Another view of the radio is WWII film of , I 
> believe Tarawa, where a "Pogo Stick" is stuck in the sand in the 
> foreground of a camera man's shot of the beach. That does not show the 
> whole radio but the bottom stick stuck in the sand  and lower half of 
> the radio box/cube upper left of the frame. Some place I read the 511 
> was concidered more reliable than the 611. Just passing stuff 
> along....no financial interest in either set ~:^)=
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> EdZ KG6UTS
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> On 05/12/2015 06:15 PM, Dennis DuVall wrote:
>> Yes, that would be the SCR-511 (BC-745). The shaft fit in the guidon 
>> socket on cavalry saddle stirrups. The most portable radio the Army 
>> had for a while at the beginning of the War and probably used on the 
>> ground rather than on horseback most of the time.
>>
>> Dennis D.  W7QHO
>> Glendale, CA
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> Hello All:

I lurk and look. However I'm curious why no one has mentioned the BC-222 
or BC-322,
which was the first portable radio used by the ARMY and dates from 
1936.. I'll dig out my info and take
a couple of pix as I have one of these little gems. Anyone interested ?

Michael Kaye
K2OUD