[GreenKeys] Fwd: Re: slightly off topic

[Bruce Gentry]

YES!  I installed, moved, and repaired them at all hours of the day and 
night for 15 fun filled months in southeast Asia 1970-71.

On 5/2/16 12:37 AM, WA5CAB--- via GreenKeys wrote:
> Yahbut, the sucker weighs 600 pounds bone dry.  Have you ever worked 
> on one of them?
>
> In a message dated 05/01/2016 23:07:56 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> ka2ivy at verizon.net writes:
>> The GRC-27, ARC-27, PRC-41, and GRA-53 all will work down to 220 mc 
>> unmodified, although sensitivety and power output decrease. They can 
>> be regained by  adjusting the trimmer condensors, but performance at 
>> the upper  frequencies of no use to hams will be seriously degraded.  
>> It is a viable rig for ham use, and unless the regulations have 
>> changed, it would be great for  AFSK Teletype.
>>
>> Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY
>>
>> On 5/1/16 11:51 PM, WA5CAB at cs.com <mailto:WA5CAB at cs.com> wrote:
>>
>>> AN/GRC-27 was a decent rig in its day for what it was used for.  But 
>>> it isn't legal for US hams to talk to US military aircraft.  It 
>>> covers 225-400 MC AM.and MCW.
>>
>
>
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