[Milsurplus] Question about GRC-109

[Mike Morrow]

I wrote:

> The R-1004A/GRC-109 is the hardest unit to find and sometimes can bring
> that much by itself...

Todd wrote:

> I submit that the RR-2* pre-109 CIA version is the hardest to locate.

Ah...but Ron does not have an RR-2 to sell.  He has an R-1004A/GRC-109, plus
other AN/GRC-109A components. :-)

I don't much care for the AN/GRC-109*, but I suppose it beats those Australian
coastwatcher 3BZ sets:  http://www.qsl.net/vk2dym/radio/3BZa.htm .  I have a
manual for a version of this set supplied to the US Army Signal Corps as the
AMC-145 in 1944.  I wonder why the US Army bought this set.

The fact that the AN/GRC-109A was being procured by the US Army after 1969
seems to imply that the 1968 Hughes AN/PRC-74B HF USB portable wasn't fulfilling
the Army's needs. 

Imagine what could be done with today's technology, properly hardened for
military use.  Check out the forthcoming 18 oz. Elecraft KX3, which is possibly
the most interesting radio I've come across in 47 years of radio play:
  http://www.elecraft.com/KX3/kx3.htm .

Mike / KK5F