[Milsurplus] SINCGARS Radios

[Bill Pileggi]

SINCGARS Radios, at least the first series/designs, are now 20+ years old. (I remember doing some work on the subject in 1991, and being astonished the manuals were dated 1985...) It is 'inevitable' some should come on the market. The work fine as normal FM radios, though in the a/c versions, I thought the buttons were a little small for gloved fingers.

Having COMSEC gear and actually using it are 2 entirely different subjects. At least in all the stuff I worked on, the "codes" were loaded into each radio from a "code loader device" (I can't remember what it was actually called, but do remember it was a handheld device with a mil. audio connector on the output. The radios had to be synchronized so that they would all "frequency hop" together - in the same sequence, etc.) before each mission. Unless the codes were loaded in this manner, forget it - you weren't talking to anyone (in COMSEC mode). So, if you have the radios today - without the proper codes loaded (for the day) you aren't going to hear anything. 

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