SLPAD - 58 - setting up comms

[Michael Bailey]

TCC-3
https://radionerds.com/index.php/AN~TCC-3

Terminal Telephone AN/TCC-3 was a 4-channel carrier telephone terminal and
a major component of Terminal Telephone AN~TCC-23
<https://radionerds.com/index.php/AN~TCC-23>. It was used to provide four
telephone channels and one voice frequency order wire channel over loaded
spiral-four cable and/or radio relay facilities. It could also be used to
carry a single wide band special service channel. Intelligence could be
transmitted over loaded spiral-four cable for a distance of 40 miles
(96km)using the AN/TCC-3 without Repeater, Telephone AN~TCC-5
<https://radionerds.com/index.php/AN~TCC-5>, or a distance of 100 miles
(160,9km) when AN~TCC-5 <https://radionerds.com/index.php/AN~TCC-5> Repeaters
were used. The equipment was deployed throughout the combat zone.



Different GRC (ground radio communications) generations, including GRC-10

https://radionerds.com/index.php/GRC_-_Ground_Radio_Communication


Picnic and Levine race Rizzo and Baxter to set up 40-foot antennas (seems
non-trivial, effort-wise)


Levine’s ill humor at Baxter’s suggestion - that he and Rizzo should, since
they are college men, adapt well & enjoy being situated on a college campus
- most probably is indirect: he probably does like that idea, but is tired,
bereft of his promised leave, and he and Picnic came in 2nd in the antenna
installation race.

So anything Baxter said would be irritating, and to have Picnic chime in
after Levine’s previous explanation in the truck that he doesn’t ever like
to go back - super annoying.

He uses that useful phrase “why don’t I”

As in “why don’t I just punch you in the mouth or something” (including a
flat-affect lack of question mark, & of interrogative tone, in all
likelihood)

There are lots of reasons why he doesn’t, but it’s also a warning, and
Baxter steers away from the apparent danger zone around “Joe College”
joviality & toward the much more congenial topic of beer.