[Milsurplus] ID of radio

Thu, 19 Dec 2002 03:05:08 -0600

Guess it must have been a PRC-6.  Was hand held and not back pack.  Hard to
remember from 50 years ago.

Thanks to all who responded

At 12:02 AM 12/19/2002 -0500, [email protected] wrote:

>Bob,
>
>You're probably thinking of the RT-196/PRC-6.  Covers 47-55.4 MC FM.  It is
>Korean War vintage.
>
>The only U.S. WW-II vintage sets I can think of that cover 6 Meters (AM) are
>the TBY, BC-222 and BC-322, but they are back-pack sets (walkie-talkies) like
>the BC-1000, not handie-talkies like the BC-611, and they did not have flat
>ribbon antennas.  Those appear to have come out with the AN/PRC-6/8/9/10.
>
>There were several foreign sets done after the war similar in size to the
>BC-611 (see History of the Squad Radio - the French built a close copy of the
>PRC-6) but it seems unlikely that they would have shown up over here before
>the late 50's, if ever.
>
> >
> > I am familiar with the BC-611 3-6Mc walkie talkie.  I seem to remember
> > there
> > was a similar unit (about the same size) that covered 40-60 Mc and had a
> > ribbon
> > flex antenna.  What was it called?  Seems like there were a lot of them
> > used on
> > 6 meters right after WW2.
> >
>
>73
>Robert Downs
>Houston
><[email protected]>
>
>
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