[ICOM] Icom IC-208

[D C Macdonald]

FAA has AN/GRT-21 & 22 VHF & UHF single channel TX.
AN/GRR-23 and 24 VHF & UHF single channel RX.

Many remote sites have remotely callable and controllable
VHF & UHF multi-channel backup rigs.  Many individual
ATC facilities (w/ air traffic controllers) can select any
particular remote site and set these Back-Up Emergency
Communication (BUEC) transceivers as necessary to backup
individual single channel equipment at those sites that may
have failed.

Not sure about USAF (retired in 1981) but we used
GRC-171 for UHF multi-chan and GRC-175 (Wilcox
807B RF decks) for VHF in many locations.

Mac, K2GKK/5
USAF 1961-1981
FAA 1994-now



----Original Message Follows----
From: "Alan C. Zack" <k7acz at cox.net>
Reply-To: ICOM Reflector <icom at mailman.qth.net>
To: ICOM Reflector <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [ICOM] Icom IC-208
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:52:17 -0700

Are you still using the AN/GRC-27 multi channel air to ground?  At several 
Coast Guard Air Stations we operate and maintain our own towers and the 
Avionics techs also maintain the tower radios.  The single channel sets were 
easy, but the big, old GRC-27 was a bear to have standard power out thru out 
it's full range.
73

D C Macdonald wrote:

>I didn't realize that Europe had "triple-split" the 25 kHz
>channelization in VHF.
>
>To the best of my knowledge, we are not  USING  the
>25 kHz splits in the UHF range here in North America.
>
>I am a tech in the comm shop here at FAA's repair depot
>overhaul facility in Oklahoma City and work on the ground\
>radios every day.
>
>73  ---  Mac, K2GKK/5