I first heard of a 'Paraset' when I saw a message on the
QRP-L reflector announcing an upcoming '
June 6th Paraset D-Day' activity. A search for more information soon revealed that the Paraset was a small vacuum-tube transmitter-receiver unit built during WWII in the UK at the
Whaddon Hall headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service Communications Unit. Known officially as the '
Whaddon Mark VII', the units were either air-dropped by parachute or carried, by the jumpers themselves, into many of the occupied countries of western Europe. . .
posted by jackspace
on Nov 5, 2008 -
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