[Milsurplus] RT-70 antenna base and batt case?

[Mike Morrow]

>Has anyone for sale a MT-652/GR antenna base, CY-590/GRC battery
>case and/or a power cable assembly CX-1209/U for the RT-70 milradio?

Those items are genuinely hard to get.  I've only been able to find one MT-652 ever.  I don't think much of it, though.  Add the equally rare mounting for the CY-590 (MT-673/UR) to create the configuration known as the AN/PRC-16.   The AM-65 is not used.

>I just got one of my two RT-70/AM-65/GRC combos working today
>and would like to start adding some genuine mil components to it.

You'd find it much easier to accumulate the components which make up the AN/VRC-7.  That requires the RT-70, AM-65 with PP-281 (for 12 vdc), CX-1213 dogbone, and the vehicle mounting MT-300/GR.  Only the mounting is moderately hard to find.  Fair Radio had the MT-300 in recent years for $85, and maybe still does.

The AN/VRC-7 is popular with some military vehicle types, who want an authentic radio installation, but don't want anything too elaborate.

CAUTION!!!  If you are like me, these early 1950s US tactical FM radios can become addictive.  They were the world's best and most advanced in their day (I hate the vibrator power supplies, though).  You'll soon want the premier and most elaborate combo of the series, the AN/GRC-7.  That will consist of an R-110 with PP-281, RT-68, PP-109, RT-70, AM-65 with PP-281, C-435, MT-297, C-375, and C-433/434 remote wire control units.  Both RT units can operate on six meters, and the set can re-transmit signals on one RT through the other RT.  It's beautiful, all 250 pounds of it!

But...most mil radio collectors don't give a damn about these sets.  They're not WWII, you know!

73,
Mike / KK5F