[Milsurplus] Question about GRC-109

[greg mijal]

I guess I'm the only person that knows pretty much all the tricks, or used too, for the GRC 9.I used to operate one at Ft, Bragg NC in the early 70's. It was still part of the Special Forces primary equipmentinventory at that time.  I was temporarily assigned to the 5th SF at Bragg after their return from VN and did all thePM, storage and a wee bit of repair on the inventory.The extra little item you have is the other power supply.  It is smaller and lighter that the big one and is the supply that the A teams jumped with.  The big one left in storage as unnecessarily heavy to back pack. The load was typically splt between 3 jumpers, each man had one box in his ruck sack.  The ruck sack was designedto be dropped, but still attached to the jumper via a long bungee cord.For an even lighter load an operator could always bring a battery for the receiver and the same hand rank systemor similar along for the transmitter.  When the little rig loads up correctly it loads the crank operator to a herculian effort.They are about as good t a talking watt meter as you can get.The radio loaded very well on the freq's we used: 4 - 8 mhz  using a 100 foot wire as long as a full length counterpoise was installed underneath.73'sGregWA7LYOKinston NC Former SGT USSF Det A - 115
 > Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 05:26:56 -0400
> From: w4ron at carolina.rr.com
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Milsurplus] Question about GRC-109
> 
> I wonder if there is a GRC-109 expert in the group?
> I've found a set that appear to be in like new condition.
> I've done a Google search and everything I find shows
> there being 3 units, but the set I've run across has
> 4 units. All 4 sections has it's removable cover,
> Included is a package of cables that look like they'd
> go with the set.
> I've uploaded some photos of the 4 units together
> and then a separate pic of unit.
> You can see the pics here, just scroll down a little;
> 
> http://radioheaven.homestead.com/McCall-collection.html 
> 
> Any advice as to what I've found and what they might
> be worth would be much appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
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