[Milsurplus] Re: : R-100/URR schematic and TM 11-310

[Hue Miller]

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Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Re: : R-100/URR schematic and TM 11-310
> I posted a note to the list several weeks ago that Change 8 (I think it
was
> C8) to TM 11-310 included the R-100/URR.  Considering that posts looking
for
> R-100 info average nearly one a month, I was a little surprised when no
one
> even commented.

Must be a lot of these receivers out there. I wonder what the production
was, maybe
even up into 100,00 ?
>
> Two other sets that have hard to impossible to find TM's that were
included
> in Change 7 are RT-12/TRC-2 and RT-53/TRC-7.  I'm trying to assemble both
> sets.  If anyone has anything with nomenclature ending in either /TRC-2 or
> /TRC-7 and wants to sell or trade it, please contact me direct.

Is TM-11-310 the "Maintenance of Ground Radio Equipment" manual?

> In a message dated 12/8/2002 2:22:06 PM Central Standard Time,
> milsurplus-request@mailman.qth.net writes:
> >
> > >I own a olive drab wrinkle R-100, it is marked Espy  581, but that  is
> > upon
> > >oversprayed areas and  R-100/URR is visible underneath under close
> > >examination.  Has anyone found a Signal Corps manual for one of these
> > >receivers? Somthing must have beeen printed with such a large number of
> > them
> > >out there.  Jon AB9AH

Jon, is this like a set repainted by Espy, or do i misunderstand? I am
wondering if it may have
been from a contract cancelled at the end of the war, then sold on the
civilian market. I believe
the Minerva Tropic Master was sold that way.
Hue Miller