[GreenKeys] Fwd: Re: slightly off topic

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I liked   grt 3s a dn grc  27s  did not like  gra  53's  although  we are 
looking for a  gra 53  for the   collection here  at  SMECC since we  used 
them at   Luke.  crammed one with a dynamotor in the wing commander's  car   
and  we have several around  base and at the  touch and go  scoring trailers 
on the flightline.
 
Jim H  gave  SMECC  a single  channel UHF   recv.  that was the companion 
to the Grt3
 
 
odd  thing  even in the 70's luke afb still had  bc 640  and  bc 639   for  
vhf  tower an vhf comm  and  had  arc 3s  for  backups!
 
I need some  green   bc 640 tx and  bc  639   rx  ( have a  gray navy  639  
wanna   trade  Nick?  we need the green one!)
Ed#   _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)  
 
 
 
In a message dated 5/1/2016 11:46:55 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
greenkeys at mailman.qth.net writes:

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_ (mailto: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.   









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

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