[ARC5] "What's Old is New..."

[Tim]

Interesting stuff....I had not heard about any "requests" for FRC-93's
during Desert Storm.  (not that I would have...)

We had Harris URC-119 HF sets (in-country) that replaced our ARC-120's
while we were deployed.  We had no problems with the URC-119's even though
we were routinely sand blasted by frequent Shamals...  And yes, HF CW was
used in Desert Storm (I was one of the operators)....We used it for a
backup and it worked just fine...
Tim
N6CC

On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 10:08 AM, jeepp <jeepp at comcast.net> wrote:

> That provides a subject of conversation as the FRC-nomenclatured KWM-2A
> was out of inventory 10 years before the contemporary activities on the
> Mid-East started?
> Jeep K3HVG
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Glen Zook via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: 8/8/17 11:06 (GMT-05:00)
> To: Jay Coward <jcoward5452 at aol.com>, arc5 at ix.netcom.com,
> milsurplus at mailman.qth.net, arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] "What's Old is New..."
>
> The Harris SSB transceivers were having the receiver "front ends" damaged
> by the effect of sand blowing across the HF antennas.  Until a solution was
> found, quite a number of Collins KWM-2A transceivers were employed to
> replace the Harris equipment.
>
>
> Fortunately, there were around 100 KWM-2A transceivers stored in a
> warehouse and, again fortunately, someone remembered that these units were
> available.  A couple of retired Collins Radio Company employees were
> "drafted" to "check out" the equipment before it was airlifted to the Gulf
> States.  I have been led to believe that one of the former Collins
> employees went along with the equipment to insure that it worked after
> deployment and to teach the military personnel how to operate the KWM-2A
> units.
>
>
> Glen, K9STH
>
> Website: http://k9sth.net
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> *From:* Jay Coward via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> *To:* arc5 at ix.netcom.com; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net; arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 8, 2017 9:33 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [ARC5] "What's Old is New..."
>
> Wasn't there a call for R-390A's during the Gulf War because comms were
> getting fried by high levels of atmospheric static discharge? Or is that
> urban or sub-urban legend?
> Jay KE6PPF
>
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