[Milsurplus] URC-35?

[Spike Dennis]

The URC-35 was indeed used shipboard. My ship(USS JFK) had three of them. One in Trans #3 mounted next to 11ea URT-23's. The second was mounted on the bridge & used primarily as the marine ship-ship & ship-shore, And the third was mounted in War Comm as their local tactical radio for use in the event that the URT-23/R-1051 combo that was 'patched' to them was knocked out.. They also had 2ea URC-9's. A retired ETC friend of mine, N0NTC, worked on many of them that were mounted aboard small boys, he hated them. 

I purchased a complete set from a list member several years ago that was supposed to be fully operational. I drug it out last summer to set it up, & as luck would have it, it didn't work, AT ALL!  That was a BUNCH of money down the tubes. I contacted that old friend/ETC to have a look at it. He very reluctantly agreed. That was 6 months ago & he hasn't touched it yet. I guess it's time to go get it back along with the three GRC-165's, R-1051, & BC-312. NONTC relates that they left many in service with less than 20 watts output because even if they bothered to get it up to full snuff, it would last long anyway. He said many were in ship-ship use with only 10watts out. The culprit being that convection cooled pop bottle bottom RF/PA tube.



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----- Original Message ----
> From: "WA5CAB at cs.com" <WA5CAB at cs.com>
> To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2009 6:45:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] URC-35?
> 
> The AN/WRC-1 manual covers the T-827, AM-3007 and CU-937.  The R-1051 is 
> covered in its own manual.  It was the first of the entire family to go into 
> service.  The RT-618 is not part of AN/WRC-1 and is not covered by the WRC-1 
> manual.
> 
> As far as never being used in a tactical environment is concerned, AN/WRC-1 
> was installed in several FRAM-II DD's I served on in the early to mid 70's. 
> It replaced the TCS as the utility HF set.  Whether it was ever installed 
> in new ships I don't know.  I transferred to the Mine Force in 1976.
> 
> In a message dated 5/3/2009 2:07:52 PM Central Daylight Time, w2hx at w2hx.com 
> writes: 
> > Ok! Thanks for the great information on this! I am hoping that in amateur
> > service, that the amp will last longer than it would in military or mars
> > service.
> > 
> > I might also try interconnecting the RT-618 with my URT-23 amp (AM-3924 /
> > RF-110A)
> > 
> > I checked the milsurplus archives and I see the ad you mention from Bruce
> > WA8TNC. I will contact him.  I wonder if this manual WRC-1 is good or 
> > should
> > I look for a specific URC-35 manual? Bruce advertised:
> > 
> > NAVSHIPS 94840(A) TECHNICAL MANUAL FOR RADIO SET AN/WRC-1
> > AND ANTENNA COUPLER CU-937/UR - Volume I.  4 February 1964.
> > 
> > I guess I am not sure whether the manual would cover the use of the 618 or
> > only 1051/827/AM3007/CU937. I will contact Bruce, maybe he can advise
> > further.
> > 
> > Thanks!!
> > Eugene W2HX
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > >From: Glenn Little WB4UIV [mailto:glennmaillist at bellsouth.net] 
> > >Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 2:38 PM
> > >To: Eugene Hertz; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net; boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> > >Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] URC-35?
> > 
> > >The RT-618A/URC, R-1051, T-827 and AM-3007 are all part of the WRC-1
> > >family.
> > 
> > >The URC-35 was, to the best of my knowledge, never used in a tactical 
> > >situation due to it lack of reliability (too much packed into too 
> > >small of a package).
> > 
> 
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