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UPDATE: This was originally posted back in January of 2020:
This August 1955 article in Popular Mechanics includes 2 CJ-5s. It took a nuclear scientist to locate the article (long story), but it dove tails nicely off yesterday’s Willys News post that included an article on uranium mining (last page of Willys News) about these two prospectors.
This set up they had a Elmac AF-67 ham radio transmitter and a WW2 direction finder BC 973 radio that looks like they may have used it for their communications receiver maybe for 160 meters..still odd though. About 50+ years ago when I was 15 I went to see about some old radios for sale. The elderly man selling the radios had a large photo of him hanging on the wall showing him next to a CJ2A with a WW2 Navy TCS radio transmitter and receiver sitting in back on the fender well. He was with a group prospecting for Uraniun after the war and would communicate with a base station. In the evenings he would talk to his ham radio buddies on it. I remember that photo well..I will recreate that same set up in my 46 CJ2A. My ham call is N6FEG.
Hi Paul,
Thanks for sharing that story and those details! Good luck with your radio recreation!
– Dave
In 1955, those CJ-5s would have been very new. So a well funded group.