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

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

I always thought or think of AN/URC-32's as "lightweight".  Some of the 
ones that I worked on years ago were in the same space as several AN/WRT-2's.  
Which I also worked on.

In a message dated 01/30/2012 10:25:58 AM Central Standard Time, 
geoffrey at jeremy.mv.com writes: 
> ----- 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 
> 

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