Subject: ATN: Doug Hendricks re spy radios, paraset
From: Stuart Rohre (rohre@arlut.utexas.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 25 2004 - 16:04:41 EST
Doug, The Force is bouncing my emails direct to you. Many thanks to various listees who forwarded your request to me. I also got your direct mail but my reply bounced, so List; pardon this method: The book I talked about sometime back is called "Clandestine Operations, The Arms and Techniques of the Resistance, 1941-1944" By Pierre Lorain, with English adaptation by David Kahn. Macmillan Publ. c 1983. Text and Drawings c 1972, in "Armement Clandestin, S.O.E., 1941-1944, France." ISBN 0-02-575200-6 (English version). This has the Paraset and its predecessors and successors used in France in WW2. Schematics are in book, but do not have part values, but the circuits are typical Colpitts, and Regen circuits with common (American) tubes for the most part. I have failed in finding additional copies. I got mine on close out at book store. Perhaps you could find the French text version, which has the same drawings and schematics. All illustrations are line drawings, but an excellent book, Editor used ham resources to check the radio chapters. Another more recent book that contains photos of some old Resistance radios and more modern clandestine radios of Cuba and Viet Nam era from both sides; is: "Eyewitness: SPY" by Rich Platt, Geoff Dann, Steve Gorton, Pub. July 2000, and obtained currently at Barnes and Noble Book Stores, on line. Although a more general overview of history of spying, it has excellent photos of a few radios. I am still trying to find out what model radio was dropped to Malayan resistance fighters during the Japanese Occupation. Saw one, (one tube, either 6L6 or 6V6), in my 9M2 days. Had wood case, black bakelite panel. Stowage in wood lid for tube. Built in key, crystal control. Does not appear to be paraset or any of the others in the above books but similar. Perhaps memory of one tube is clouded by time, and it was a paraset or similar model. It was owned by a 9M2 who worked at the time, 1967 for Radio Malaysia Ipoh station. Good luck on your book search. 72, and 72 to the list members Stuart Rohre K5KVH
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