[Milsurplus] Speculations on ground radios and the GRC-14

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Don’t forget the very rare ARR 36. As I recall it was the receiver of the
ARC 65 in a stand alone box. Never saw one. Did once own the TO manual for
it.

AI says:

   - The ARR-36 is listed as the *R-224/ARR-36*
   - Described as an *HF Auxiliary Receiver*
   - Associated with the *AN/ARC-21*
   - Installed in aircraft including the:
      - B-47
      - B-52
      - KC-135
      - VC-137A

Mark
AF6IM

On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 8:20 PM Hubert Miller via Milsurplus <
milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> One thing of several i was not thrilled about with the R-808: the 2:1 freq
> band ranges. 2 - 4, 4 - 8, 8 - 16, 16 to yes, 32 MHz. The SRR-13 has the
> top bands 16 - 24, 24 - 32. The R-392 has ~ kHz readout 0.5 to 32 MHz. The
> R-808 makes me think, "old school". Like Hammarlund old school, when
> Hammarlund HQ -180 two dialer was selling at the same time, same store as
> the Drake SPR-4.
> If there's shortcuts on the R-808 to aligning it without extension cables,
> i'm all ears. I also thought about jiggering the B+ to get a couple more
> volts on the RF and IF plates. I also thought about removing the useless
> RYTY converter section. Would that be advantageous or just dumb ? Probably
> what i really should do is remove the R-808 from my life.
>
> Re big receivers, story #1436: I bought this big rec. that had come off an
> Italian WW2 navy cruiser. This was the story Art Corbus was told by H-- L--
> who was the ARRL section manager who sold it to him. So i bought it from
> Art, not his kind of thing. A 2&1/2 man lift on a wheeled table. I
> determined in not too long a time that the tubes were all postwar. When i
> told Art, he said, "That lying son of a ....".  I could not get a schematic
> for it and the size and weight were a killer. I ended up just junking it. I
> later found an old CQ mag with a pix of the thing in someone's shack; a
> Siemens receiver. So it was one huge mistake for me to acquire. Not the
> worst mistake of my life, but a mistake.
>
> I still have a German KWEa rec which tunes only 1 to 10 MHz but weighs a
> ton. It is highly rated as a CW rec by that Norwegian fellow who does the
> Youtube videos, but it may have to go. I draw the line at about 65 lbs.
> Below that, i don't have to worry about doing damage to myself, and i don't
> have to dread moving the thing.
> -Hue Miller
>
>
>
> Sent from my Galaxy
>
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