[Milsurplus] the postwar armored series

[Hubert Miller]

Wammes, and all:
Maybe there is a better phase than "Dutch GRC-9".  We tend to think of a "GRC-9 family" inspired by the GRC-9. The Chinese set, i think 109E, "looks" inspired by the GRC-9, at least in frequency range,
power and mode, use, and appearance. Less so, the GRC-3030, and as you say, it was not a field radio.
I think the GRC-3030 is an attractive looking set. I like the horizontal format as compared to the GRC-9 "over and under" package, and the tuning dial looks to me that it offers better resolution than
on the GRC-9.
I would in "GRC-9 Family" include the BC-1306 of course, and maybe some Serbian version i don't know much about, and finally the Hallicrafters TR-9, which was maybe the last of the CW-AM  HF field
radios.
-Hue 

>The GRC-3030 is not too rare, I see them offered regularly. Not a clue how many where produced, but it must have been hundreds or even thousands. They were designed and produced by Van der Heem, a company long since disappeared through takeovers, but in those days very much an active producers of both consumer and professional electronics and electrical appliances. Including vacuum cleaners and electrical blankets. Definitely not a company that had to be kept alive by artificial means. However, the successor  of the GRC-3030, the GRC-3025, was basically an English system, but adapted to using the then modern Old Family audio accessories. The special junction box to accomplish this was again made by Van der Heem. All this just before the Dutch started using the Old Family itself, both GRC-3030 and GRC-3035 were in use only a rather short period of time.
BTW, I never really understood why the GRC-3030 would be dubbed "the Dutch GRC-9". True, it uses the same antenna's, but apart from that, the
GRC-3030 is vehicular only.