[Milsurplus] TRC-1

[Hue Miller]

There was a hamfest in the last few years where I bought an R-392 with the 
seller's
stipulation that I had to take a TRC-1 transmitter also. When I looked at 
the transformers
inside that thing, I knew that it would be major agony and maybe damage to 
my person
just getting it to my vehicle, and that with taking every possible shortcut. 
So luckily I
talked my way out of that part of the deal.
When I still lived in WA state north of Seattle in the early 1990s some high 
school kids
put on a bootleg FM station that I heard, from Bothell WA, it got to my qth 
at about
7 miles with good strength. Someone told me they were using a TRC-1, 
possibly
vfo'd, I don't recall. Sounded pretty good - you could say, "tube audio 
sound". Of
course their broadcast range led to the predictable result.
-Hue Miller