Radio-Equipped Cavalry
Recognising the utility of the mobile radio receiver, the United States Gove . ernment has recently equipped cavalry troops with cornpact portable sets, as shown in the photo- . graph. Contact with the medium frequency transmitter qt headquarters is maintained by the seceiver mounted to the rear of the saddie. The aerial is wound round the pole in the rider’s hand.
The first troops to be so equipped are the Mexican Border patrols, which make a daily reconnaisance of the entire border-line. So satis« factory has the system proved that the signal corps efigineers are now ‘developing a_ portable combined transmitter and receiver which will enable patrols to maintain two-way commmunication with headquarters and one -. another.
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Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 8, 2 September 1932, Unnumbered Page
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116Radio-Equipped Cavalry Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 8, 2 September 1932, Unnumbered Page
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