[Milsurplus] T-217/grc

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At 10:05 PM 09/04/2003, Donald T. Findlay wrote:
>FYI someone stated earlier a remark about the
>GRC-27 set being somewhat portable. I nominate
>that staement as BS of the week.

Agree!!!

>By the time you
>stuffed that MT-686 rack with the power
>distribution ducting and cable, then the
>R-278/T-217/MD-129 sets, you were all done for
>the afternoon,,, except for bolting that monster
>to the deck,,, as it became very top heavy.AS to
>places I know where they were used,,, Every SAGE
>and AC&W Radar site had two systems.
>There was even one on Mona Island at
>the runway on west end of the isla. (there wasn't
>any juice on that end of the island, so I don't
>know how the AF lit it up) Mona is about halfway
>between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic,
>smack dab in the middle of the Mona Passage.

Add to that Navy Destroyers of the late 50's/early 60's,
especially DDR's.  (Radar Picket types)   Had two
of those green monoliths in the transmitter room
next to all the grey SRT-14/15/16 sets and the TACAN
xmtr.  Looked outa place being OD green....
Got a two week "C" school on them at Newport RI, since
they never taught them at ET school GreatLakes...
Even with them we still had the old TDQ/RCK pair
on the 115-156 mHz band, altho not used much.
Guess those Jerk 27 things were everywhere!

Perry  w8au