[Milsurplus] Chinese 102/139 set

[Pete Lancashire]

Can you point me towards the seller on eBay red star radio comes up zip

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018, 12:33 PM Robert Nickels <ranickel at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 10/3/2018 1:42 PM, Peter Gottlieb wrote:
> > Is this a currently used set?  I see lots of Russian and Chinese
> military sets but they all seem quite old. Or is that what they use?
>
> It's 1960s (early) or late 50's vintage vacuum-tube gear, Peter, roughly
> their equivalent to the AN/GRC-9.  It's said to have been used by the
> Chinese army as well as North Viet Nam during the conflict there, but
> the sets that have been offered via Red Star Radio on eBay are all new,
> sealed in original containers.   The one I have had been unpacked and
> was missing some of the accessories including the hand-crank generator.
>
> Frequency range for the receiver is 2-12 MHz, transmitter 2-10 MHz, with
> output power of 10-13 watts CW and 3.2 watts AM.    The interesting
> feature is that the transmitter and receiver were designed to work
> together in a common housing with an interconnect cable that allowed for
> metering, muting, etc. but the radios that have been sold surplus are
> separate 102 transmitters and 139 receivers in their own sealed cabinets
> which do not provide access for the interconnect cable.   The receiver
> has it's own battery box so the intention was evidently for use with
> separate antennas and power supplies.     It looks like a fun set to
> play with on low-power AM and CW.
>
> 73, Bob W9RAN
>
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