[Milsurplus] FW: TRC- 77

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

AN/TRC sets are usually (historically) contrained to being hauled somewhere, 
set up and operated.  Constraint may be antenna(s), telephone/telegraph lines, 
etc.  AN/PRC-47 should have been either AN/TRC-xx (you can't practically 
speaking walk around with it while operating, regardless of which antenna you are 
using) or AN/GRC-xx or AN/URC-xx (there's also a vehicular and a fixed 
variant).  AN/PRC-47 directly replaced AN/GRC-9 (or its AN/GRC-87 and AN/VRC-34 
variants).

In a message dated 1/13/2005 6:59:26 PM Central Standard Time, 
kk5f at earthlink.net writes: 
> Clete wrote on why the TRC-77 wasn't a PRC instead of a TRC:
> 
> >Because TRC includes everything on that page,
> >and it's too much for a man to carry and use.
> >It includes the wire antenna.
> 
> Hi Clete,
> 
> I don't think so.  The AN/PRC-41, and the AN/PRC-47 especially, have much 
> more weight and bulk that the TRC-77.  I'm sure no one man ever carried ALL of 
> an operating AN/PRC-47 set!
> 
> For that matter the PRC-74, PRC-70, and PRC-104 HF sets have more weight and 
> bulk than a TRC-77 set.
> 

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