[Milsurplus] China ? Set

[Hue Miller]

Was just cleaning out some old paper and happened to look at the April 2006
"Horn of Plenty" from the Puget Sound Antique Radio Association. A photo 
inside from a ham radio swapmeet showed a device that looked intriguing but
i couldn't quite place it. After checking out the photos of the China 102E set
that some of you have bought, which seemed to be available for a while in
steady quantities (all good things come to an end), i was able to determine
that this mystery set was the receiver and transmitter of the 102E in one package,
this means roughly the size of the TBX stacked on top its battery box. I am
surprised to see an example of this radio in this country. Ken Lakin told me that
it was not much produced because the China military felt that this made too
heavy a package.  The photo's not too good, but it looks like it may have a mast
antenna coming off the left side and also some kind of power unit connected
to it via cable, but this doesn't look like a handcrank generator. Impressive radio.
About BC-654 architecture but loads more knobs. -Hue Miller