[Milsurplus] MRC-20

[B. Smith]

That's why I stuck with the tag  "Radio Jeep" as it was typical of a 
fabrication by an Air Force Unit (especially a TCS----  :-) ------), many 
"radio jeeps" and trucks were  thrown together  by the USAF during the 
Korean war and later in Vietnam and other conflicts because the an entire 
equipment package that was  needed was not in the inventory or available 
from supply channels.. Somewhere  there was  was a jeep with a BC-610 
mounted on it.  A lot of the radio jeeps were simple used as a test bed for 
radio maintenance and or "gofer" or flight line jeeps.

breck


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <WA5CAB at cs.com>
To: <rafantini at salisbury.edu>; <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] MRC-20


| Ray,
|
| These comments aren't aimed at either you or Breck.
|
| That would appear to be a bastardized version of the AN/VRC-1.  The gear 
is
| mounted on what may be a sheet of plywood, instead of in the normal steel
| cabinet.  The transmitter (at least judging by its tube cover) is a 
BC-375, the
| receiver probably a BC-348 and the VHF set presumably an SCR-522.  The 
green box
| in the rear with the post-war Kelly AFB sticker might be a BC-221 (not 
part of
| the AN/VRC-1).  AN/VRC-1 used BC-191, BC-312 and SCR-542.  I don't see
| anything looking like antennas.  The two aluminum rods sticking out of the 
2x4's
| look like they might be holding up a sign.
|
| There may have been 24 volt versions of AN/VRC-1 fielded.  The radios 
would
| have been probably available and a BC-348 could have been substituted 
instead
| of a BC-312-*X.  I don't have any info on availability of the 24 volt aux
| generator but I know that some were built.  I've seen at least one.  But 
the thing
| in the photos wouldn't have survived a week in either the mountains of 
Italy
| or in France.
|
| My guess is that someone with only an Internet education put it together 
in
| maybe the 90's.  The Jeep looks OK, though.
|
|
| In a message dated 3/7/2009 2:02:09 PM Central Standard Time,
| rafantini at salisbury.edu writes:
| > A primitive version of the MRC-20 can be seen at the Air force Museum at
| > Wright Patterson, thought it may be a MRC-20 but looking at the photos 
posted
| > on Mr. Smiths site show it to be something older, maybe the first 
version that
| > the MRC-20 was modeled on. See it for your self at:
| > http://solo11.abac.com/zorroab1/WrightPat/WrightPatterson.html
| >
|
| Robert Downs - Houston
| wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
| MVPA 9480
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