[Milsurplus] blind sow finds an R-808

Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:33:55 -0700

I assume the G then stands for 'Grunt' as in Grunt Radio Carrier?? (GRC)
(I also assume the /S is for Shipboard and /F is the Fixed/Mobile
Designator.
73 de John W6HNC

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:05:24 -0500 aGEnuine ham <[email protected]> writes:
> OK, group:
> 
> So I try to pay attention, and all I get is confused.  I was 
> entertained
> by Eric's R-808 story, and informed by Robert's reply, but it raised 
> a
> couple of questions, to wit:
> 
> What's the Navy doing with a /GRC?  My encounters have been with 
> AN/Sxx
> on ships, and AN/Fxx at fixed sites.  And some underwater stuff, 
> but
> let's not go there.  It finally dawned on me, Marines.  Aha!
> 
> Next, I was baffeled by the hierarchy of nomenclature.  
> R-808/GRC-14, I
> get, but why does a top nomenclature AN/GRC-14 become part of a
> AN/MRC-55, and since my decoder ring has disappeared, what is M 
> anyway? 
> I thought V was vehicular and S shipboard, so what's different about 
> M? 
> And since G is supposed to be immobile anyway, does M mean 
> motionless?
> 
> Then, since neither G nor M are shipboard, how does the manual end 
> up
> being a NAVSHIPS publication?  Seems to me mil standardization ain't 
> so
> standard.
> 
> I'm reading "The Invention That Changed the World" by Budiansky 
> about the
> concept and development of RADAR.  Not too deep technically, but it 
> is
> very informative about the difficulties getting the upper military 
> brass
> to accept new ideas, concepts, hardware, anything, back in the 30s. 
> 
> Explains a lot about some of the 'why was development so slow?' 
> questions
> which appear here from time to time.   Old Admiral King was 
> something
> else.  He would probably have been happy with 3 masted schooners.   
> Newer
> hardware need not apply.
> 
> 73,
> George
> W5VPQ
> 
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73 es tnx de John
John Jewkes, W6HNC/AAA0OR OR/AAA0ID ID
State Director Oregon and Idaho, US ARMY MARS
ARES/RACES/MARS liaison Officer OR D0-D4 and Idaho D0-D3