MILITARY COLLECTOR GROUP POST, May 11/98 INDEX: ANNOUNCEMENTS; PRC-6 GROUP PROJECT; MARCH/APRIL TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN; Part I, By William L. Howard MEMBERS WRITE; More on Axis HRO's. ON THE COMMERCIAL FRONT; HUMOR; *********************************************** ANNOUNCEMENTS; Several people have asked so here's one answer for all, "NO I'AM NOT GOING TO DAYTON, NEVER"! A bunch of our members will be however, including Steve Haney who will be set up with goods ta sell, so stop and introduce yourself, get acquainted. Dennis *********************************************** PRC-6 GROUP PROJECT STATUS; My Address is:(this is not a UPS shipping address!) Dennis Starks P.O. Box 95 Cross Timbers Mo. 65634 (USA) David Davidson has graciously donated approx 50 PRC-6 xtals to our cause. This should significantly help provide radios with xtals, and or matched freq pairs. This is the last day for you to get your name on the list. The quantity of radios to be ordered have risen to the level that I will not have sufficient funds to front for the second order, or it's at best a close call. So please as you put your name on the list, send me a check for the principle amount needed for your radios & batteries. Tally; so far I've got the below people down, let me know if I've missed you, or am incorrect. I will place the last order on Tuesday morning May 12, so if you want any, let me know by tonight. PRC-6($20.00) / Batteries($22.50) Steve Hill 3ea / 3ea Lee Orsborn 1ea / Dave Sundheimer 1ea / Ed Guzick 2ea / Todd Huss 4ea / 8ea William Smith 2ea / 2ea Bob McCord 1ea / 1ea Paul Monroe 2ea / Brian Scace / 4ea Jim Wood 2ea / 2ea John Kidd 4ea / Pete Williams 2ea / Steve Bartkowski / 1ea Bruce Haffner 1ea / 1ea Dave Prince 2ea / Jay Coward / 3ea Kevin Hough 1ea / 2ea David Ward 2ea / Mike Cowart 1ea / 1ea Ralph Hogan 2ea / 2ea Bob Simpson 1ea / Mikhael Brown 1ea / Hal Blaisdell 2ea / 2ea Sheldon Wheaton 2ea / David Ragsdale 2ea / Chris Hasse 2ea / 2ea George Humphrey 2ea / 2ea Jim Hopper 4ea / 4ea Me 1ea / 1ea *********************************************** MARCH/APRIL TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN; Part I, By William L. Howard Vol. 3 No. 2 Mar-Apr 1998 A non-profit publication about the veterans Technical Intelligence in war and peace the current operations of the National Ground Intelligence Center, the Technical Intelligence Unit at Aberdeen Proving Ground and news items of interest to the technical intelligence community Key vote on NATO expansion draws near By JACK R. PAYTON Times Diplomatic Editor©St. Petersburg Times, published March 8, 1998 WASHINGTON -- Bill Clinton, according to one school of thought, is within days of making the biggest mistake of his presidency, possibly the worst blunder any American president has made in decades. According to another way of thinking, he's about to lift his presidency out of a swamp of ugly scandal and finally establish himself among the most farsighted leaders this country has seen in the past half-century. And both these make-or-break scenarios, odd as it might seem, have nothing to do with any of the scandals or would-be scandals that come to mind when you think about Clinton's presidency these days. Instead, they hinge on whether the president can get 67 senators to agree with him this week or next that it's a good idea to expand the North Atlantic Treaty Organization from 16 to 19 members. Enlarging NATO by bringing in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary isn't something Americans ordinarily debate with their neighbors over the backyard fence. Clinton’s success or failure in expanding NATO eastward will not only define his presidency, but America's role on the world stage for decades. Some are convinced it might even determine if America and its allies live in peace and prosperity, or face the prospect of a horrifying war. However it turns out, NATO's expansion depends on whether the president gets 67 senators to vote "yes" -- the two-thirds majority in the Senate required by the Constitution to ratify treaties. NATO -- for those who've forgotten or might be too young to have ever known -- is a group of nations that banded together in 1949 for the specific purpose of preventing the Soviet Union from intimidating, subverting or conquering Western Europe. The United States and its allies had seen the Soviets take over Eastern Europe after World War II and were determined that Moscow and its totalitarian communism had to be stopped. So they formed NATO, the most powerful military alliance in history, a coalition of like-minded democracies that now includes 16 nations. And by most historical reckoning, NATO turned out to be not only the most powerful alliance, but the most successful as well. Its unity and steadfastness of purpose, few will dispute, were major factors in the collapse of the Soviet Union seven years ago. And this stunning success, as much as anything else, is at the center of today's bitter debate about the alliance and its future. Simply put, some defense and foreign policy experts wonder whether we need NATO at all now that its main reason for being -- protecting against the Soviet threat -- no longer exists. And for the same reason, many more experts are convinced that expanding NATO now, when its purpose is in doubt, not only doesn't make sense, but is needlessly expensive and endangers the development of democracy in Russia, the Soviet Union's successor. Probably nobody makes this second point better than George Kennan, the veteran statesman and diplomat whose ideas helped shape the foreign and defense policies that have served America well for the past half-century. "Expanding NATO," Kennan wrote recently, "would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Cold War era." Kennan and others who vehemently oppose NATO expansion worry most about how it might affect the development of democracy in Russia. Most of all, they fear that moving NATO's forward line of defense too close to the Russian frontier will embolden the nation's militarists -- be they communist or fascist -- to crush what's left of Moscow's fragile democracy movement. And that, Kennan writes, would be especially tragic because expanding NATO isn't absolutely necessary from a military or diplomatic point of view. "Why," asks Kennan, "with all the hopeful possibilities engendered by the end of the Cold War, should East-West relations become centered on the question of who would be allied with whom and, by implication, against whom in some fanciful, totally unforeseeable and most improbable future military conflict?" Similar doubts are being expressed these days by politicians from one end of the political spectrum to the other. Far-right conservatives, among them some GOP members of the Senate, complain that America already has too many foreign entanglements as it is. Even moderate Republicans like Sen. John Warner of Virginia caution that going into a second round of NATO expansion to bring in countries such as Slovenia or Romania, or possibly even the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, would almost certainly stir Russian militarists into action. To keep that from happening and recognizing that a first round of expansion seems inevitable, Warner is proposing a three-year moratorium on any new members after letting in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. But views such as Kennan's and Warner's, as sensible as they might seem to some, represent a decided minority. The fact is, expanding NATO is not -- as its critics like to portray it -- some poorly thought-out, will-o'-the-wisp goal desperately sought by Clinton as his first major foreign policy accomplishment after six years in office. It is supported, with great enthusiasm, by the secretaries of state of the eight previous presidential administrations -- both Democratic and Republican. More than 130 prominent and high-level former government officials -- again from both major parties -- have gone on record favoring expansion. Perhaps even more important, the heads of state and government of all other 15 current NATO members are firmly behind expansion and their legislatures are expected to ratify expansion by wide margins. The thrust of all their arguments is that expanding NATO will not only benefit the countries taken in as new members, but the alliance's present members as well. New democracies will be safeguarded in regions where they hadn't existed for almost half a century. And most important, according to advocates of expansion, collective security, the heart of the NATO alliance, will be greatly enhanced. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright summed up the argument in favor of expansion recently by saying that "it is part of a much larger strategy to build a Europe that is at last undivided and at peace. "This goal is manifestly in America's national interest," Albright said. "Admitting Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to NATO is a natural and logical response to the fall of the Berlin Wall and to the rebirth of freedom across Central and Eastern Europe." The secretary of state dismisses complaints, often from Democrats, that joining NATO would harm the economies of countries like Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, which would be required to spend too much of their money upgrading their armies. The leaders of these countries, Albright points out, are the best judges of what's in their own interest and how much they can spend to attain these goals. And these leaders, she continues, unanimously favor joining NATO. The latest argument trotted out in favor of NATO expansion is that turning away from it now would be a diplomatic disaster for the West as a whole, but especially the United States. Sherman Garnett, a former assistant secretary of defense, makes this argument when he notes that it was the United States that pushed hardest for NATO expansion in recent years. "U.S. fingerprints are all over this," Garnett recently told Congressional Quarterly. "If we were to take the advice of the critics and pull out, I think we would suffer a defeat." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ `Star Trek' technology creates computer security Star Trek Computer Voice: ``Intruder alert, voice print security required. Begin voice print and face recognition verification.'' Computer User: ``My voice is my password. Give me access.'' Star Trek Computer Voice: ``Voice print verified, identity confirmed, access granted.'' Computer User: ``My face is my password. Give me access.'' Star Trek Computer Voice: ``Face print verified, identity confirmed, access granted.'' Sounds likes something from ``Star Trek,'' right? Now, your own computer can be doing the talking and video scanning with ``Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Voice Print With Face Recognition,'' an update of 1996 software that isn't designed as a game, but as a serious security program. Voice Print is easy to use. It not only restricts unauthorized people from signing on to your computer, but, by requiring a voice match and a face recognition match, you can use it to keep data-access private and limit access to the Internet - as well as to adult material or excessive game play. Instead of remembering and typing passwords, you simply speak a few words into the computer microphone. The program uses the unique vocal characteristics of the human voice to create a ``voice print.'' If your voice is verified, you're in; if not, you're rejected. To try it, I entered my voice. Then, I had my brother-in- law, who has a deep voice like mine, pretend to be me and try to get in a half dozen times. He got nowhere. One caveat: If you have a cold, Voice Print may not work. In that case, you can enter a secure password to gain entry. During the video scanning phase, I stayed still so the camera could snap my image, then I picked out the sharpest one. Once I did that, my image became my password along with my voice print. When rejected, a ``Red Alert'' shield is displayed, with sound effects and an audio message that access to confidential data and encrypted directories is denied. The voice of the computer is that of Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the widow of ``Star Trek'' creator Gene Roddenberry. She's the computer voice on ``Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' and ``Star Trek: Voyager''. Creating a usable Voice Print requires a good-quality microphone. Registered customers can purchase high-quality Telex microphones from QVoice for $20. If your PC comes with a standard microphone, though, it should still work. Report: Antimissile Plan Troubled WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Pentagon effort to speed development of new antimissile weapons is plagued by poor planning, inadequate testing and political pressure, an independent study panel concludes, the Washington Post reported Sunday. In a 76-page report submitted to the Defense Department earlier this month but not publicized, the panel warned against a ``rush to failure'' in a program that at $4 billion a year is the Pentagon's costliest weapons research and development project, the newspaper said. The 16-member panel, chaired by retired Gen. Larry Welch, a former Air Force chief of staff, was appointed by the Pentagon following a series of test flight failures. But the Post reported that the panel concluded that decisions by officials to accept accelerated timetables and minimal numbers of flight tests raise the risk of more failures, delays and cost overruns. The antimissile program is a more modest follow-on to President Reagan's ``Star Wars'' campaign to make the United States impenetrable to enemy missiles and enjoys strong support among Congress' Republican majority. An unidentified spokesman for the Pentagon's Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, told the Post that the panel's report was being reviewed. But he said ``some adjustments' already were planned to improve testing and evaluation, including more ground simulation tests before costly flights, more backup parts in tests and greater attention to quality control. Report: Army Sex Probes Examined (AP) The Army is probing claims that its own investigators coerced witnesses and targeted only blacks -- including the service's former top enlisted man -- for sexual misconduct prosecution, a newspaper reported Saturday. Acting Army Secretary Robert M. Walker this week ordered the Army's inspector general, Lt. Gen. Larry R. Jordan, to conduct the investigation, The Sun reported. The newspaper said Walker ordered Jordan to determine whether Army agents used ``inappropriate techniques and procedures, knowingly pursued racially motivated allegations and were themselves racially biased while investigating allegations of sex offenses.'' The Army's Criminal Investigation Command denied racial bias or coercion and defended its investigation as fair and thorough. Spokesman Paul Boyce told the newspaper the investigation command ``welcomes the inspector general review of its procedures and is cooperating fully with the independent investigation to ensure that any remaining allegations are examined thoroughly.'' Sgt. Maj. Gene McKinney has said charges were brought against him because he is black. Though acquitted of sexual misconduct, he was found guilty last week of one count of obstruction of justice and demoted one rank to master sergeant. A sex scandal that began in 1996 at Aberdeen Proving Ground, about 40 miles north of Baltimore, resulted in charges against 12 black drill instructors accused of forcing female subordinates to have sex. Most of the female victims were white and five of the women say Army agents tried to coerce them into filing rape charges against instructors. One instructor was cleared, and the remaining 11 were either convicted or resigned rather than face courts-martial. NAACP President Kweisi Mfume said Friday he was glad the Army was looking into the charges. But he said the Army may not be the best party to conduct such an investigation. ``I still believe it has to be an outside investigation if we are to get to the truth.'' Robot Could Be Battlefield Surgeon By MALCOLM RITTERAP Science Writer (AP) -- It looks like a giant bionic fly that has found work as a tailor. It looms over a small table, moving its black metal arms and silver pincers quickly and ilently. Elbows spread wide and camera-lens eyes unblinking, it deftly sews two rubber hoses together. About 12 feet away, Army Lt. Col. Christoph Kaufmann leans forward in his chair, peering down into a large black box. Below, he holds scissorlike handles at the end of two mechanical arms. He too makes sewing motions. In fact, every move of his hands is mimicked instantly by the bionic fly. It's a little like that scene in ``The Wizard of Oz'' when Toto pulls back the curtain to reveal the real wizard. And the reality here sounds just as fantastic: The device Kaufmann is demonstrating may one day let surgeons behind the battle lines operate on soldiers at the front. The bionic fly is called TeSS, for Telepresence Surgery System. The Pentagon has spent about $3 million for its development, and now it's going to find out what TeSS can do. Within the next few months, Kaufmann and his military colleagues at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences will start putting it to the test, operating on dummies, cadavers and anesthetized animals. And in two or three years, they'll have a better idea how useful it could be on the battlefield. The idea is to do surgery at the front without putting surgeons in the line of fire. Still, it's clear that TeSS won't replace standard surgical care behind the lines, said Kaufmann, a trauma surgeon who sewed up soldiers in Operation Desert Storm. Soldiers with simple wounds will still wait to be evacuated. If an explosion blows away half a leg, a medic will still apply a tourniquet and get the soldier to human surgeons fast. But on some future battlefield, a soldier whose lung has collapsed might be hustled into an armored vehicle, where a surgeon-guided robot slips a tube into his chest. His buddy, whose face is so badly damaged he can't breathe, might inhale again after the robot cuts a hole in his throat. Some future version of TeSS might help a medic put packing in a ripped-open abdomen to control bleeding, or put a large intravenous line into a soldier's groin because his arms are too badly burned for a regular IV. Say a bunch of injured soldiers are contaminated by unknown chemical or biological weapons. Or a soldier is wounded by an unexploded shell that lies like a booby trap in his body.``I think it would be more appropriate to save a surgeon and put a machine at risk,'' Kaufmann said.None of this is will happen anytime soon. It could take five years to 10 years, Kaufmann said.Still, TeSS is amazing, said his colleague Dr. David Burris. Even with a less advanced version, ``I've operated on a pig three stories down in a parking lot ... I could sew his gut together just as well as if I were standing beside it.'' If you peer down into Kaufmann's black box, grab the scissorlike handles and give TeSS a test drive, you quickly start believing you're wielding those pincers yourself. It's like you're working with two pairs of tongs at a barbecue grill. You see the pincers on a TV screen, but they appear in three dimensions because of glasses you wear. The pincers respond instantly to your hand motions, and open or close when you manipulate the handles. But most startlingly, you feel what they feel. When a pincer bumps something or pulls the surgical thread taut, you sense the resistance. The illusion is powerful. Recently, when a reporter tried his hand at operating TeSS, Kaufmann put a needle in one of the pincers and pushed it toward the robot. The reporter jumped back from the box to avoid getting jabbed. Of course, the needle was nowhere near. TeSS works through a computer that monitors the operator's movements and sends commands to 28 electric motors in the robot. TeSS is connected to the computer and the black box by a bundle of cables that's as thick as Kaufmann's wrist. And that illustrates a big problem with taking a robot surgeon into the battlefield. Huge amounts of data have to be sloshed back and forth without delay between the robot and the human surgeon. Cables obviously can't be used in battle, and trying to send this data torrent by present-day radio links would be like running a four-lane freeway into a two-lane bridge. Technological tricks might overcome that, but there are other concerns: What if the enemy jams the signal during surgery? Or what if the robot malfunctions? Burris suspects that improved training for medics might be a better investment than robot surgeons. He warns that if robot surgeons are deployed, training for medics shouldn't be slighted. When the technology breaks down, Burris said, there's a 19-year-old medic on the ground. ``If he's well trained, (he) might be able to save the life of his buddy. If he's not well trained, he might watch his buddy die.'' In any case, the first and most widespread uses for machines like TeSS may be far from battlefields. Civilian surgeons might rehearse operations with such a device, programmed to mimic particular patients, Kaufmann said. If real operations were done through a TeSS-like device, it could be set to keep the surgeon out of dangerous territory. Or it could give a surgeon the equivalent of extremely tiny hands for delicate surgery, by greatly magnifying the surgeon's view while scaling down his motions. Already, in Europe, a few patients have been operated on with a remote-control surgery device that works through tubes inserted through small holes in the body. ``Within our lifetime we'll see benefits,'' Kaufmann said. ``This technology is not going to go away. It's too neat.'' Remember my suggestion to put a Sagger Missile on a modern day mini tank back in the early 1980s? And now we have the “Fire Ant”. Next we wll have “Tess” I wonder if this is part of integrating women into the military? Transistor May Outperform Electronics By REBECCA ROLWINGAssociated Press Writer ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Scientists are fine-tuning a new transistor that cranks out computations about 10 times faster than existing computer technology. The transistor, under development by federal scientists at Sandia National Laboratories, could benefit everything from computers and cell phones to satellites and sensors that pick up minute concentrations of toxic materials. ``If you can integrate this with conventional silicon processing, it would mean cheaper, faster, smaller, better,'' said Paul R. Berger, a University of Delaware associate professor who has reviewed the federal team's work. Transistors allow microchips to perform logical functions. Millions of transistors are hooked together with wires on the surface of a single microchip. The Sandia transistors are about the size of a traditional transistor -- a square about one-fifteenth the width of a human hair -- but only half as many are needed. ``It has a chance to revolutionize electronics,'' said Jerry Simmons, leader of the Albuquerque-based, five-person team that spent about four years and $1 million developing the transistor. In a common silicon transistor, a gate opens, sending electrons flowing down a duct. In the Sandia transistors, electrons ``tunnel'' from one semiconductor layer through an extremely thin barrier to another semiconductor layer. The rapid process allows electrons to avoid impurities along the path that slow traditional transistors. The Sandia transistor is expected to perform 1 trillion computations per second, although its speed hasn't yet been tested. In a few years, another federal laboratory in northern New Mexico expects to have the world's fastest supercomputer, capable of performing 3 trillion to 5 trillion calculations a second -- using traditional transistors. That supercomputer already is projected to be about 30 times faster than the fastest supercomputer previously in use at Los Alamos National Laboratory -- and about 100 million times faster than the typical home or office computer. If the Sandia transistor lives up to its promise, it could eventually allow supercomputers to operate 10 times faster than those with traditional transistors, Simmons said. Scientists have worked with ``tunneling'' transistors since the late 1980s but have not been able to consistently mass-produce them. Sandia fixed the problem by stacking the semiconductors vertically instead of horizontally. ``It does what some others have done in a much simpler, elegant way that makes it a lot more practical to implement,'' Berger said. The new transistors, which apply quantum physics, are still five to 10 years from commercial use, partly because microchips must be redesigned to take advantage of them. Scientists for two U.S. companies, Raytheon Co. and Motorola Corp., and a half-dozen Japanese companies also are competing to develop transistors using quantum principles. ``I think we'll see chips made that include quantum effect. Whether this transistor will be the winner remains to be seen,'' says Alan Seabaugh, a scientist at Raytheon Co. The success of the new-generation transistors depends on how well they will work when linked together in multiples and how reliable they will be when mass-produced, Seabaugh said. The Sandia device ``could be very important for compact logic and memory elements,'' said Venky Narayanamurti, dean of engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The Sandia scientists still have work to do. The device now works best at minus-321 degrees Fahrenheit. That cold temperature is necessary to eliminate unwanted excess energy. But Simmons expects Sandia transistors to work at room temperature by next year. And since computer chips should be redesigned before they could take full advantage of the new transistors, that new design could allow for a smaller chip that needs even less power, Simmons said. THE WILLIAM L. HOWARD ORDNANCE TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE MUSEUM e-mail wlhoward@gte.net Telephone AC 813 585-7756 Back issues of the publication are available from the author *********************************************** MEMBERS WRITE; More on Axis HRO's. Re: HRO HRO = Hell of a Rush Order range of Nippon HRO coil not to 133 mc/s. that is of course way to high. also, Japan used a frequency-meter type dial, never duplicating the expensive National cyclometric dial. ( the German HROs by Seimens and Korting were built with National dials imported thru neutral Portugal. ) also, the Japanese "aircraft HRO" did not have 'local tuning', the capacitor was apparently only set up for flex cable tuning control. The 3-gang smaller, i call them "3/4 versions", were not necessarily war simplification, but entirely satisfactory for aircraft or field portable gear. The 'Chi Ichi' HRO was not necessarily a better receiver than the very heavy "special receiver 92" ( i think this is nomenclature ), but certainly smaller and probably easier to use, and repair. however, capture photos seem to show that even for farflung radio stations of the empire, the 'Special Receiver' type was the one in use, at least for shore stations, not the HRO. It's kind of an indicator of the level of Japan electronics, that the HRO seems to be among their most modern sets, when in the US and UK, the design was already showing its signs of age, being much less a modern radio than the Hammarlunds and Hallicrafters and the military models. The only advantage the HRO offered was mechanical simplicity, with no bandswitch, so less to fail; and it was also easier to repair. With the Japanese model, you also see problems apparent with other Japan communications equipment: light gauge metal cabinets, covers and such that are easily distorted and then no longer fit right. also, the coils on the Nippon HRO seem to use more of a thin blade type contact than the Allied sets, and this too seems less robust. btw, the '01' in Ground-Air Receiver 01, refers to 1941 design year, is that right? hue miller *********************************************** ON THE COMMERCIAL FRONT; The Louisiana Museum of Military History, due to financial realities will be will be moving to smaller quarters. We have been asked to help liquidate some of the Commo gear. Below is the first list of equipment that's been made available. If you have an interest in any item contact Joe below via email and he'll pass along any needed info. AM-1780 untested but good condition $ 25 AM-2060 with cable $ 95 ART-13 untested but good condition $ 150 AS-2851 30-80 log periodic complete $ 125 BB-451 NOS with electrolyte kit $ 185 BB-451 used $ 100 BC-611 details later BC-639 untested but good condition $ 35 CPRC-26 with most accessories $ 70 CU-2267/GR Five unit multicoupler - with two spare F-1482 $ 125 CY-6121/PRC-74 Wet cell battery box $ 25 DY-105 untested but looks good $ 45 DY-105 no dynamotor $ 25 GRA-71 almost complete $ 125 GRC / VRC lots of cables ASK GRC-106A RT and AM- with cables, base mount and handset - working $ 650 GRC-109 details later GRR-5 ASK MD-522 with cables $ 100 PPS-4 complete except for optical sight $ 300 PRC-10 with accessories $ 100 PRC-25 with accessories $ 300 PRC-41 with antenna and PP-3700 AC power supply - working $ 175 PRC-68 with handset, antenna and battery - working but a little rough $200 PRC-68 with handset, antenna and battery - working, good condition $ 235 PRC-77 with accessories $ 350 PRC-90 with battery - working $ 100 PRC-90 with battery - no 282.8 transmit $ 50 PRR-9/PRT-4A working w/manual copy $ 50 R-392 good condition with power cable $ 200 R-442 working, good condition $ 225 RT-524A unchecked $ 300 RT-524A working $ 500 RT-68 no meter $ 40 RT-858/PPS-6 RT only Make offer Russian 62R1 VHF cargo pocket transceiver with mike and dipole wire antenna - ASK Make offer Russian R-105 no accessories $ 100 Russian R-123M with power supply and control box $ 200 TRC-77 untested but good condition $ 75 TS-323 good condition $ 35 TT-722/TG untested $ 50 ITEMS NOT FOR EXPORT All reasonable offers will be considered All items plus shipping Payment to: Glen Thibodeaux c/o Louisiana Museum of Military History P. O. Box 92110 Lafayette, LA 70509 If folks would just contact me directly, I will take care of getting things to Glen. Joseph W Pinner EMail: kc5ijd@sprintmail.com Looking for PRC-64 accessories, G-43 or G-58 generator and M-1 Carbines / accessories. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRC-70 SELECTOR ASSEMBLY, UNUSED, FOREST GREEN. NSN 5820-01-092-5904, ALSO CALLED THE A1 MODULE. THIS IS PART OF THE FRONT PANEL, WITH 6 FREQUENCY KNOBS AND READOUTS, CONTROLS FOR POWER, MODE, VOLUME AND SQUELCH. INCLUDES THE PRINTED CURCUIT BOARD WITH MICROPROCESSER. $60 EA. PLUS SHIPPING STEVE HANEY HANEY ELECTRONIC CO tc0654@mesh.net ed) Steve has a list of manuals available on request via email. *********************************************** HUMOR; It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all. -- James Thurber ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A girl asks her boyfriend to come over Friday night and have dinner with her parents. Since this is such a big event, the girl announces to her boyfriend that after dinner, she would like to go out and have sex with him for the first time. Well, the boy is ecstatic, but he has never had sex before either, so he takes a trip to the pharmacist to get some condoms. The pharmacist helps the boy for about an hour. He tells the boy everything there is to know about condoms and about sex. At the register, the pharmacist asks the boy how many condoms he'd like to buy-a 3-pack, 10-pack or family pack. The boy insists on the family pack because he thinks he will be rather busy, this being his first time and all. That night, the boy shows up at the girl's parents' house and meets his girlfriend at the door. "Oh, I'm so excited for you to meet my parents. Come on in!" The boy goes inside and is taken directly to the dinner table where the girl's parents are seated. The boy quickly offers to say grace and bows his head. A minute passes, and the boy is still deep in prayer, with his head down. 10 minutes later, there is still no movement from the boy. Finally, after 15 minutes with his head down, the girlfriend leans over and whispers to the boy, "I had no idea you were so religious." The boy turns slightly and whispers back, "I had no idea your father was a pharmacist!" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INSPIRATIONAL POEM Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. The courage to change the things I cannot accept, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill today because they pissed me off and also, help me to be careful of the toes I step on today, as they may be connected to the ass that I may have to kiss tomorrow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets. -- Dave Edison *********************************************** (The preceding was a product of the"Military Collector Group Post", an international email magazine dedicated to the preservation of history and the equipment that made it. Unlimited circulation of this material is authorized so long as the proper credits to the original authors, and publisher are included. For more information conserning this group contact Dennis Starks at, military-radio-guy@juno.com) ***********************************************