[MRCA] RE: [armyradios] Chinese Military Type 102E HF Radio Set

[WF2U]

Rich I have one of these sets, and I know a few who already put them on the
air, and I had worked them

The 102E is a copy of the US AN/GRC-9 field transmitter/receiver, with some
relatively minor differences.
It's not difficult to build a power supply for the transmitter, and the
easiest way to power up the receiver is to build a "battery eliminator" for
old portable commercial tube radios (they basically all need 1.5 VDC
filament  and 90 VDC plate supply) from a kit which is sold by Antique
Electronics Supply.
There was a good article on putting it in operation with homebrew supply
schematics in one of the past issues of Electric Radio Magazine.
I haven't used mine yet, as I have some other military radios waiting for
attention (restoration and maintenance) in my shack and I haven't had time
to cobble together the power supplies yet...

73, Meir WF2U / NNN0AAF
Landrum, SC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: armyradios at yahoogroups.com [mailto:armyradios at yahoogroups.com]On
> Behalf Of Rich Arland
> Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 7:02 PM
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> Subject: [armyradios] Chinese Military Type 102E HF Radio Set
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>
> Does anyone have one of these sets? ON our favourite auction
> house, there is one for sale for $200.. Is it worth it? It looks
> rather interesting. Apparently the RX works on dry batteries but
> the TX takes a hand cranked generator. I would think it would not
> be all that hard to come up with an AC supply for this set.
>
> Anyone have one of these beasties that can shed some light on it for me?
>
> 73 ES TNX
>
> RICH K7SZ
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