[Milsurplus] GRC-109 Prices

[Mike Morrow]

Hue wrote:

>The GRC-9s of course had more use, and longer probably, 
>and are a better and more useful radio, but the stories about
>it just aren't as special.

Amen to that!  I like my AN/GRC-9 in almost every detail more than my AN/GRC-109A.  Well, except that the key on the -109 transmitter is cute, and the bands are numbered backward on the -9.  The RT-77 seems to me to be a decent design as one of the last western all-hollow-state military portable HF sets.

I just wish we could flush out some real live stories about the service use of the AN/GRC-9.  I've got to believe there's a few interesting tales to be told from the Korean War era, on into the early 1960s.  I wonder if any of them saw use in the early years of the Vietnam War.  I've heard that the answer is "no," but how could anyone be sure?

Best regards,
Mike / KK5F