From: Glen Closson (glen_closson@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Apr 09 2006 - 20:14:08 PDT
Hi Chance,
Thanks! I was totally unaware of the Canadian set up until you mentioned
it. The pictures are great.
Regards,
Glen
"Chance favors the prepared mind." ~ Louis Pasteur
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From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org] On Behalf
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Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 7:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [MV] M151A2CDN Cage and Radio Setup
The link above shows a few pics of the M151A2CDN with some poor shots of the
cage itself and the Canadian modified spare tire carrier-slash-antenna
bracket mount and bracket. The fellow who owns this has elected not to bolt
his AMUs to the top of the rollcage itself, but you can (hopefully) see by
means of the interior shots where those plates are on the Canadian cage
(i.e., very rear roll bar segment at the top) and where you'd have to bolt
*through* the top in order to utilize them.
The picture of the MX-2799 shows what I call the "Utility Bracket" which you
can either use for the MX-2799 or MX-6707. The "Utility Bracket" can accept
different flavors of top plate depending on whether you're mounting the
MX-6707 for the VHF stuff or the AB-652 for the HF stuff (AB-15 would also
fit, but I've never seen a Canadian vehicle with one mounted.) Sometimes
there was a plate to close off the open part of the utility bracket once the
ant base was installed, but most fell off in service or were "lost" (or
never installed to begin with.) CF Iltis also uses the same
utility-bracket-with-plate mounted on either the front bumper or on a
special bracket mounted on rear of vehicle (some have two), and CF command
post/CRTTZ vehicles/pods use them too.
You'll see the MT-1029 mount for the radio is mounted a little differently
from the American M151s. We had angle brackets and a different sub-tray
which pushed the radio setup more towards the front of the vehicle, and we
had a Bendix power plug and receptacle setup rather than having the MT-1029
wired directly to the batteries as with most of the US vehicles I've seen
(1/4 tons anyway.)
WCMVHS and MVPA member Bob Sutherland owns this one and kept it all as
Canadian as possible with the exception of his having refitted the top bows
in order to discard all the mickey-moused door crap we MacGyver'd to get the
doors to mount/close. The large-ass Call Sign 9 is original, as is the CF
camo paint scheme (two greens, one black.) We also invariably mounted a
"Blue Ansul" fire extinguisher somewhere in the way, sometimes on the floor
between the driver and co-driver's seats, and sometimes right beside the
hand-brake on the tunnel cover.
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