[ARC5] HF mlitary radios

[Mike Morrow]

Ken wrote:

> ...some sort of a military solid-state HF transceiver. The radio
> wasn't complete... It was fairly small, but beautifully built.
>
> I can't remember the model but I think it something like 76 or 86...

It's already been reasonably proposed to be the AN/TRC-77.

  http://radionerds.com/images/f/fb/TM_11-5820-473-35.pdf

None should have been surplused yet 50 years ago, but both versions have been pretty common for 35 years or so.

RT-654/TRC-77 and RT-654A/TRC-77 have several significant and many small differencs...get the RT-654A if possible.  They show up at hamfests and on ebay fairly often.

They are 6-channel crystal-controlled 3 to 8 MHz CW-only units.  Hybrid...uses 3B4 and 2E24.

There is a rare USB and CW version, the RT-655/TRC-88.  Mine is serial number 9.  So that is another possible suspect.

Mike / KK5F