[Boatanchors] Collins AN/URC-32A Sideband Generator 786F-1

[Geoff]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Hensley" <w5jv at hotmail.com>
To: <collins at mailman.qth.net>; <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 10:52 AM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Collins AN/URC-32A Sideband Generator 786F-1


>
> I have available a Collins Sideband Generator 786F-1 which I think is for 
> the famousURC-32A modular upright SSB tranceiver.  Looks unmolested and a 
> few pictures areavailable.
> If you're working on one of these large transmitters and need the unit, 
> get in touch.I usually like to trade apples for oranges.
> 73, John W5JV


If anything qualifies as a boatanchor that rig does. I had the pleasure of 
installing and getting the bugs out of the early versions. Typical Collins, 
the field bulletins are thicker than the manual. After a few years it became 
somewhat reliable but that synthesizer was always a bear to work on.

When I went to work at National and got exposed to the Wadley Loop in the 
Racal RA-17 that was in engineering and then the HRO-500 it was a piece of 
cake. I own both of those radios and work on others regularly but you 
probably couldnt pay me enough to tackle a URC-32!

Carl
KM1H