[GreenKeys] Fwd: Re: slightly off topic

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Well, what I mainly remember about them was that the first time I went on 
active duty (also in SEA), I was an ET.  OE Division's leading Chief (the 
only E8 aboard - and one of the first Chiefs to make Senior Chief) usually 
assigned new hands to nursemaid the 94 R-390A's we had aboard.  After a while, 
and if you did OK, you generally got assigned to more interesting sets.  If 
you screwed up, you either got sent to the Mess Decks or assigned to the 
GRC-27.  :-)  I never actually had to work on it.

I never understood why we had one, anyway.  We had 25 or 30 TED/RED's and 
several AN/GRC-9's and SRC-21's.

In a message dated 05/01/2016 23:52:06 PM Central Daylight Time, 
ka2ivy at verizon.net writes: 
> 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 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.  
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 

Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480
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