[Milsurplus] [MRCA] Items for sale

[Rod Hogg]

Michael,

It's NOT mil-surplus, and NOT "hollow state but Ramsey Electronics
www.ramseyelectronics.com  offers several ways to get the AirBand.  They
have a "Passive Receiver" tunes the entire band at once, and is fairly
sensitive.  Also a high end digital unit and a rather inexpensive ($45.00)
tunable kit.  Run however many you need into an audio mixer and 'walla' you
nave multi-freq monitoring, AND not take up a whole room to accomplish it.

Rod
KØEQH


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From: mstangelo at comcast.net [mailto:mstangelo at comcast.net] 
Sent: Monday, 23 August, 2010 04:58
To: Michael
Cc: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net; mrca at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] [MRCA] Items for sale

I've seen surplus single channel VHF and UHF aeronautical receivers for sale
but they take up lots of rack space and it sounds like space is at a premium
at your new pad.

 

Yeah, that’s kind of a problem.  Further, I can’t use one of the not-in-use
buildings to house a setup like that.  (I asked about using one for a ham
shack and found out they’re all “claimed”.)

 

You could go the solid state route an build receivers for each frequency and
fed a common audio output.

 

I’ve considered this and may do it if forced.

 

Too bad you don't care for scanners, The new ones are cheap these days and
one can find used ones for pennies. We have electronics recycling in our
town. Most of trash is television sets and computers but once in a while I
find usable goodies such as old scanners. If you don't like the scanning
function I'd get a scanner for each frequency. 

 

It’s mostly the scanning function.  I’ve also been looking for these at
Goodwill but apparently they aren’t real popular, people hang on to them or
they get trashed rather than given to GW.  

 

Something that has surprised me is the number of aircraft radios that were
made unacceptable on 1 Jan 1997 that still draw way too much money.  I
talked to one of the local radio shops and they told me that any radios the
owners didn’t want to keep for much the same purpose got dumped since they
were otherwise useless and took valuable space.  (This was during a local
quest for A.R.C. radios, control heads etc.)  Even the receiving equipment,
which was still legal for use, was dumped since the trend was to upgrade the
entire panel.  (The Type 21 ADF was an exception; it soldiered on for quite
a while.)  So why would useless (for the original purpose) NavCom radios
still have such unpleasant asking prices?  Who knows unless it’s because of
the folks building simulators for MS Flight Simulator that want them to be
authentic.  

 

Anyway, the problem isn’t without a solution, it just has to be one I can
afford.  :-)

 

Best regards,

 

Michael, WH7HG BL01xh
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/NTH/index.aspx 

http://wh7hg.blogspot.com/ 
http://kludges-other-blog.blogspot.com
<http://kludges-other-blog.blogspot.com/>  
Hiki Nô! 

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