"Calling HQ" Topic
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Gunfreak  | 23 May 2020 5:34 a.m. PST |
Trudging along with my USMC platoon.
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 deadhead | 23 May 2020 7:28 a.m. PST |
Love the photography. The backgrounds are superb Now we get to see that RTO with his "lightweight" Tommy gun! |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 23 May 2020 11:47 a.m. PST |
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| Legionarius | 23 May 2020 1:21 p.m. PST |
Nice. Patrolling in the boondocks! Stay alert! |
| Wolfhag | 23 May 2020 2:40 p.m. PST |
Looks good but what's with the crooked antenna? The PRC-25 had a segmented fiberglass aerial which I assume is shown. You could not bend it like the smaller metal tape antenna. I spent a lot of time with one of those on my back. To hide the radio I'd put in inside a backpack and the metal tape antenna I could wrap around my helmet. Wolfhag |
 Legion 4 | 24 May 2020 8:37 a.m. PST |
Very nice overall ! Wolf +1
And you are correct, you would never see a PRC-77 antenna like that. The long one was segmented, and the shorter was flexible, but not like in the pic… |
| Gunfreak | 24 May 2020 9:38 a.m. PST |
Thanks, I'll straighten it out. |
| Wolfhag | 24 May 2020 10:34 a.m. PST |
Gunfreak,
If you want to add some other little detail: The handset could go bad if it got wet and was not waterproof. We'd wrap the plastic from the battery around it or better yet, a Trojan rubber (preferably an unused one) worked best because it was a tight fit. I'm not sure what color you'd use. Also, are they mirrored sunglasses the LT is wearing? Cool. The background is excellent. Wolfhag |
| Legion 4 | 24 May 2020 10:28 p.m. PST |
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| Bismarck | 25 May 2020 9:24 a.m. PST |
Nice job, Gunfreak.
Have agree on the hard fiberglass antenna. They The background is great. Hey, Wolfhag, I used to have fix the stuff you guys broke and a lot of those times I was out in the bush with the battalion. The wire guys always bitched about you grunts too, either stealing or cutting up wire lines for the comm wire!
:-) In an earlier post you mentioned having lunch. Sure would love it, but Chattanooga is about 7 hours from where I live in NC. It would be great to meet you and your son and swap sea stories. I am sure that you too are sort of melancholy today. May our good memories prevail over the worst when we think of lost brother Marines. Semper Fi. |
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worries about not losing his rules stuff.
