[Milsurplus] WTB MT-652/GR

[Mike Morrow]

John McCarty wrote:

> Anybody got an extra MT-652/GR antenna mount for the RT-70 they would
> mine parting with??

John,

That's a tough one.  The only one I've ever seen in almost 30 years of accumulating Korean War FM gear is the one I have in my collection.

It goes properly with the RT-70/GRC only when in the AN/PRC-16 configuration.  For that, you have to come up with a lot of other unobtainium, like a mounting MT-673/UR, battery box CY-590/GRC, and the connecting cable CX-1209/U.

It's a lot easier to find the components for the RT-70 in the AN/VRC-7 configuration.  For that you'd need the extremely common AM-65/GRC with PP-281 or -282/GRC vibrator supply, the CX-1213/U dogbone connector, and the MT-300/GR vehicle shock mount.   Only the MT and the CX are sometimes slow to find.  The antenna would be the AB-15, -22, and -24/GR base and mast sections, connected to the RT by a CG-530/U coax cable assembly (BNCs and RG-62/U 93 ohm coax).  Fair Radio has, I believe, almost everything I just listed.

73,
Mike / KK5F