what is a navy 'MAY' radio? have bottom unit for one!

[ed sharpe]

for those that were interested, here is the link for the navy 'MAY'  radio
aux battery pack.... it HAS to be for aux ground based  use.... can not
imagine someone carrying this  as well as the backpack radio!
see:
http://www.smecc.org/whatizit.htm
took a couple pics today they are the two top ones....
hand is included in photo for purposes of scale!
ed sharpe archivist for smecc
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Subject: what is a navy 'MAY' radio? have bottom unit for one!


> what is a navy 'MAY' radio? have bottom unit for one!
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> has a contract date during wwII
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> picture would be great.
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> what did it do> what freq?
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> thanks ed sharpe archivist for smecc
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