[Milsurplus] GRC-109 Prices

[Hue Miller]

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From: "Ray, W2EC" <w2ec@attglobal.net>

> Last time I knew, Fair Radio Surplus had power supplies and 
> transmitters, you could get a set for under $200. The difficult part 
> seems to be the R-1004 receiver. Why the receiver is scare I don't know 
> as the gear was pretty much made as a T-784/R-1004 transmitter/recevier 
> pair. Yet transmitters seem to be all over but few receivers become 
> available.

I'd suggest this is due to something like the "receivers are more desirable"
thinking. They are the first thing to be looted, grabbed, disappeared, or
simply sold out.  You especially see this in the area of "enemy bringback"
equipment, since the "selective pressures" were even higher in that realm.
-Hue Miller