From: military-radio-guy Full-Name: Dennis R Starks To: military radio collectors#2 Fcc: Sent Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 05:39:32 Subject: Military Collector Group Post, Dec.4/97 Message-ID: <19971204.053826.15951.5.military-radio-guy@juno.com> X-Status: Forwarded X-Mailer: Juno 1.38 Military Collector Group Post, Dec.4/97 Index: BOOKS WE ALL NEED; Nancy Receiver Stuff Avail; URT-21's Avail; Craig's Last Wish; HUMOR; Darwin Award Nomonies, *********************************************************** BOOKS WE ALL NEED; Several times in the past I've listed these books for you. Here they are again with a little info about each. Keep your eye's out for them whether you have copies or not. This because most are out of print, & many members of our group do not have them. For other printed material of interest, refer to my library inventory, & want list. Most these titles can be had at used book stores for very little. If any of you are in need of these, let me know and I'll put you on a list, as copies are found I'll forward on the info. FOR GENERAL MILITARY RADIO DATA; U.S.Army in WW-II,The Signal Corps. A. The Emergency,by Dulany Terrett. B. The Test,by George Raynor Thompson,Dixie R.Harris,Pauline M.Oaks, Dulany Terrett. C. The Outcome,by George Raynor Thompson,Dixie Harris,CMH Pub 10-18. These are a must have set (three volumes) for anyone interested in any facet of WW-II electronic equipment, or even later equipment because they all started here. No material ever printed will provide you with more information. Beginning before WW-II & concludes shortly after. It provides great detail of the development, & use of radar, radio, & just about every other electronic gadget of the war. How communications & radar were utilized in virtually every theater of the war. Until recently these were still in print, but no longer. Several of us are looking for them so keep your eyes out. This was an official Government series, I cannot over emphasize it's importance! Evolution of Naval Radio-Electronics, and Contributions of the Naval Research Laboratory, by Louis A. Gerhard. I'am very anxious to get a copy of the above, many questions may be answered by it. It comes very highly recommended by an early radar enthusiast. It was also referred to as NRL Report 8300, Library of Congress 70-6000083, GPO stock No. 008-050-00189-5. Though it is said to be available from the Superintendent of Documents, US Government Printing Office, my attempt to search their web sight yesterday didn't turn up anything, but I'm not very good at that stuff. Military Communications: A Test For Technology, The U.S Army in Vietnam, by John D. Bergen, CMH Pub 91-12 This is the most informative resource book EVER printed for time period it covers. Detailing communications equipment, systems, development, problems, uses, and history. It too is an absolute must have book! It may still be available from the government printing office, or their outlet stores. Jane's Military Communications These began with their first issue, a double one 1979/80, progressing with additional issues each year until present. They will supply you with some great detail of current to semi-current equipment along with many good pictures of communications equipment from all over the world. Don't pay the horrible crazy price they ask for their current issue(about $175.00 now), after they've become a couple years old, the prices drop to about $20.00. They can be found in such places as "Shotgun News" , surplus, and used book stores etc. I have the 79/80, 81, & 88 issues, and need the rest. ECOM 4451,History of the Squad Radio. by Marvin W. Curtis This book was originally printed by the Electronics Command at Ft. Monmouth in 1976, & Until I found a copy a couple years ago, they were thought to be extinct, the Museum was astatic to learn one still existed, so I loaned them mine, it took nearly a year to get it back. It provides great detail in to the development of the Squad Radio beginning with the BC-611 continuing up to the PRT-4/PRR-9 with many pictures of experimentals, prototypes, and some foreign models considered for adoption. Also mentioning several other items of equipment familiar to us today. It will give you a great insight into the problems encountered when trying to develop an item of equipment, & the government bull shit that doesn't help. I greatly wish they had produced other works similar to this one with other topics, if anybody knows if such volumes exist, please let me know. (87 pages) Reproductions are available from W7FG Vintage manuals at email; w7fg@w7fg.com , visit his Web sight, or call 1-800-807-6146. Military Radio Data, Vol. I, PRC Designated Radio Equipment, by Dennis Starks This book provides detailed descriptions, and touches on the history of PRC designated radio equipment dating from 1942 to present. Starting with PRC-1 & continuing to over PRC-5000, both foreign & domestic types. It was compiled over a 15 year period of time, from dozens of references, all of which are listed to enable your further research. All updated material for this book is provided to this group when available. (around 65 pages of text)It is available from me for $15, plus $3.00 first class postage. I still have a few of the first run copies that have a line partially cut off on the bottom of a couple pages, these are $10.00 & postage. Maybe someday when I'm rich & famous, I'll get me one of those digital cameras & include pictures in this book, until then you'll just half ta be content with those offered in the references. TM11-227 series; This series of manuals was originally printed in 1944. Three variants are known to exist, & copies can be had from various sources. TME 11-227 provides detailed descriptions, a pictures of captured German radio equipment. TME 11-227A is the same for Japanese equipment. These two manuals are the core for most the info we have on this equipment today. Bill Howard is in the process of publishing his series on Japanese equipment as it was presented here, along with a bunch of pictures, I don't know how large the book would be once the pictures are added, but the text alone is 36 pages. Maybe he should title it, TME11-227B, or TME11-227A-1? If your interested in a copy you can contact him at wlhoward@gte.net TM11-227, 1944, Signal Communications Equipment Directory, Radio Communications Equipment, is probably the best referance for pre, & early WW-II equipment there is. There were earliar productions of this manual, including one printed in 1943, but I have never seen any of them. It is not known if any versions were ever printed after 1944. If anybody knows where an original of these, the 487 series, Ships 275,or similar publications can be found, we can have them reproduced for the group. TM11-487 series; Electrical Communications Systems Equipment. Also begining in 1944, this series of manuals is similar to that of the TM11-227 however has a slightly different format. Both the 227 & 487 contain information not included in the other, so you want both. The next known issue if the 487 was in 1950. TM11-487A,1950, Directory of Signal Corps Equipments Radio Communications Equipment. It should be noted that the 487 series was busted up into various categories, including radio, radar, aircraft, test equipment, generators, radio direction finding, photographic equipment etc. All are highly sought after, and only the common ground radio variants can generaly be found. None of the aircraft versions prior to 1950 are known to exist, so if you find one, let us know! Copies of the 1950 version TM11-487A are available from Fair Radio Sales. Reproductions of this and some other variants may also be available from Robert Downs. TM11-487A, Military Handbook, Electronic Communication Equipment, 1958. By this time the manual had grown to 2300 pages, & do to it's size is loose leaf bound. It is the most desirable of all the 487 series in that it includes WW-II, Navy, Signal Corps, aircraft, AN types, TTY, wire line, contract numbers/prices/companies, & even commercial equipment that had been adopted for use. It was alternately known as MIL-HDBK-161, NAVEXOS P-2058, & TO 31-3-73. Many of the items this volume describes do not appear anywhere else in print. A last possible variant of this manual was the JANAP 161, printed around 1952. I only have a couple pages of this document but from what can be seen, it may have been even more detailed than the 487/1958. In 1964, TM11-487A-1,2,3, Military Standardization Handbook, Electronic Communication Equipment, was produced as a supplement to the 1958 version. Released in three volumes. It was the last to be known as TM11-487, or HDBK-161. Then began the FM24 series. SIG 3,Oct 1953,List of Current Issue Items. Not at all like the 487 series, though it is very descriptive of dozens of types of communications & test equipment, even some tools used. It superseded Sig.3, of September 1945. That version however, I have never seen so I can't vouch for it's value to us. Reproductions of this book (296 pages) can also be had from W7FG Vintage manuals. SHIPS 275,1 Aug 1944,Catalogue of Naval Radio Equipment. Very similar to the TM11-487 series, this is the only known officially published book with detailed discriptions of WW-II Navy radio equipment. And as such, is another must have book. Detailed descriptions of Naval ground & shipboard equipment are included, as well as Signal Corps types in use by them at the time, Harbor detection equipment, radio direction finding, etc. It notes on the inside cover that this volume replaces ENG 175, & SHIPS 207, these last two variants have appearantly not survived as none have been reported. 228 pages, reproductions are reported to be available from some company back east. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CLANDESTINE RADIO REQUIPMENT; Clandestine Operations, The Arms and Techniques of the Resistance 1941-1944, by Pierre Lorain. MacMillan Publishing Company, New York. This is the book by which all other such types are compared! It gives great detail into the operations, & the equipment used by the resistance, even including the aircraft that delivered these materials. Development of the radios, communications procedures, encryption methods/evolution, weapons, the enemy direction finding techniques & efficiency that forced re-writing of there procedures, etc. I most highly recommend it, so keep your eye's out at the used book stores. OSS Special Weapons & Equipment, by H. Keith Melton. Clandestine Warfare, by H. Kieth Melton CIA Special Weapons & Equipment, by H. Keith Melton. The Ultimate Spy Book, by Kieth Melton All the above books are nice for their pictures, all but the last is out of print. I still don't have copies myself of the first two. Dennis Starks; MILITARY RADIO COLLECTOR/HISTORIAN military-radio-guy@juno.com ******************************************************** Nancy Receiver Stuff Avail; For Sale: neat oak cased "Sensitivity Test Plug" for NANCY RECEIVER Type US/D navy type # 3000 mfg. for BU. Ships by RCA 6/25/45. $15 + ship for 3#. Any idea what a NANCY receiver was? Thanks, Craig Email: ip500@roanoke.infi.net ******************************************************** URT-21's Avail; For Sale: URT-21 Bail-Out beacon. Mid-60s, early Vietnam era rescue transmitter. Good to Excellent condition, no beaters. Most with nylon straps intact. $10 plus shipping (probably $3) from 78728. URT-21 with antenna broken-off. $5 for two plus shipping from 78728. 73 DE Dave Stinson AB5S arc5@ix.netcom.com ********************************************* Craig's Last Wish; Graig Shirgold Children's Wish Foundation 32 Preimeter Center East Atlanta, Georgia 30346 Graig is 7 years old and he has a Brain Tumor.His wish is to receive one Million get well cards before his death. I think we can make this happen with your help. Thanks. Fred D. Haley Fred D. Haley THESMOKEYFDH@JUNO.COM *********************************************** HUMOR; Darwin award nomonies, For the uninitiated, the Darwin Awards are given are given each year to the person who does the gene pool a big favor by getting himself/herself killed in a creative way. These are the latest nominees: * BUXTON, N.C. A man died on a beach when an 8-foot-deep hole he had dug into the sand caved in as he sat inside it. Beachgoers said Daniel Jones, 21, dug the hole for fun, or protection from the wind, and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom Thursday afternoon when it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach on the Outer Banks used their hands and shovels, trying to claw their way to Jones, a resident of Woodbridge, Va., but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him while about 200 people looked on. Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital. "You just wouldn't believe the outpouring of concern, people digging with their hands, using pails from kids," Dare County Sheriff Bert Austin said. * In February, Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in Lompoc, Calif., as he fell face-first through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death was caused when the large flashlight he had placed in his mouth(to keep his hands free) crammed against the base of his skull as he hit the floor. * According to police in Dahlonega, Ga., ROTC cadet Nick Berrena, 20, was stabbed to death in January by fellow cadet Jeffrey Hoffman, 23, who was trying to prove that a knife could not penetrate the flak vest Berrena was wearing. * Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed in February in Selbyville, Del., as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger. * In February, according to police in Windsor, Ont., Daniel Kolta, 27, and Randy Taylor, 33, died in a head-on collision, thus earning a tie in the game of chicken they were playing with their snowmobiles. * In October, a 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally zoned when he ran," according to his wife, accidentally jogged off a 200-foot-high cliff on his daily run. * In September in Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing headfirst through an 18-inch-widesewer grate to retrieve his car keys. * In September, a 7-year- old boy fell off a 100-foot-high bluff near Ozark, Ark., after he lost his grip swinging on a cross that marked the spot where another person had fallen to his death in 1990. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DARWIN AWARD WANNA-BE'S * In Guthrie, Okla., in October, Jason Heck tried to kill a millipede with a shot from his .22-caliber rifle, but the bullet ricocheted off a rock near the hole and hit pal Antonio Martinez in the head, fracturing his skull. * In Elyria, Ohio, in October, Martyn Eskins, attempting to clean out cobwebs in his basement, declined to use a broom in favor of a propane torch and caused a fire that burned the first and second floors of his house. * Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover Township, N. J., in September, and his wife Bonnie was also injured, by a quarter-stick of dynamite that blew up in their car. While driving around at 2 a.m., the bored couple lit the dynamite and tried to toss it out the window to see what would happen, but they apparently failed to notice that the window was closed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Almost a Darwin Candidate, Paramedics free man stuck in pool Lakeland -- Police and paramedics made an early morning call to a motel to free a man whose penis was caught in a swimming pool suction fitting. A clerk at the Scottish Innmotel made a 911 call at 4:45 a.m. Friday , saying the 33 year old man was trapped in the swimming pool. ?As I approached the man,? a police officer wrote in his report,? I could see his pants were down to his knees and his penis was stuck in the suction hole located on the north-side wall of the swimming pool. ? A police officer identifed Robert Scott Cheuvront of Lakeland. The pool?s pump was shut off before the paramedics arrived, but the man still could not free himself because his penis had become swollen in the small hole that serves as part of the pools filtration system. Paramedics inserted a lubricant around the suction fitting , and after about 40 minutes were able to free the man. The man ,who had rented a room at the motel, told police he had gone swiming at 12:30 a.m. He was discoverd more than four hours later. He was treated at Lakeland Regional Medical Center and released with bruised genitalia. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ When finished reading use browser back button or go to http://www.prc68.com/MCGP/MCGP.html