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

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Mike:

     My comments embedded below.  Thanks.

73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F


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From: Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net>
> >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 know about dropping the amp/PS off the configuration to make up the PRC-16.  That's what I'd like to be able to do - run the RT-70 off a batt pack and use a small whip antenna for demos at the Gilbert, PA Mil Rad and MV show in September.  But If I can't find a decent CY-something, I'll have to cart along the AM-65 to run the RT off 12 VDC.  I'm not big on building something to house ten 9-Volt batts and a six Volt gell cell.


> 
> >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.  

I already have the AM-65, PP-281 and CX-1213.  Used these today.  I might or might not want to get the mount.  Depends on whether I want to run remote, I suppose.


Only the mounting is moderately 
> hard to find.  Fair Radio had the MT-300 in recent years for $85, and maybe 
> still does.

I think they still have 'em.


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

My goal exactly.


> 
> CAUTION!!!  If you are like me, these early 1950s US tactical FM radios can 
> become addictive.  

Too late.  I've got the two RT-70's and amps plus several (4 or 5) CPRC-26's, four PRC-10's plus amps and a whole bunch of PRC-6's.  Most of them work.  Wish I had someone to talk to on 51 MHz.  


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!

Not enough room in the garage for the GRC/7 AND me!  I hesitate to buy just the RT-68 'cuz I'm sure I won't be able to stop at that single item.



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

Yeah, too bad.  


> 
> 73,
> Mike / KK5F