[MRCA] RE: MRCA Digest, Vol 41, Issue 31

Thu Sep 27 09:55:04 EDT 2007

Does anyone know any museums with mil radios in NJ area? Also any books
that have prc77's etc. and or that cover VN or more recent mil radio
experiences. 

Jerry
KA0QIZ

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: WTB:  HF Pack Set (Rich)
   2. PRC-10 and PRC-6 Land Record (B. Smith)
   3. Re: PRC-10 and PRC-6 Land Record (Al Klase)
   4. Re: PRC-10 and PRC-6 Land Record (Richard Arland, W3OSS)
   5. Connector Woes (Richard Arland, W3OSS)
   6. Re: Connector Woes (WA5CAB at cs.com)
   7. Re: Connector Woes (B. Smith)

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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:52:18 -0400
From: "Rich" <w2obr at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [MRCA] WTB:  HF Pack Set
To: "Military Radio Collectors Association" <mrca at mailman.qth.net>
Message-ID: <001401c8002b$4f83ca90$1bbe2744 at homecomputer>
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Hello Al, de Rich ( W2OBR ) I have somethings you may be interested in.
Send 
me an e-mail ( off the list )
w2obr at comcast.net
73 Rich ( W2OBR ) (aka) oldbuzzardrich
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Klase" <al at ar88.net>
To: "Military Radio Collectors Association" <mrca at mailman.qth.net>; 
"milsurplus" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:58 PM
Subject: [MRCA] WTB: HF Pack Set

> Guys,
>
> I'm in the market for an HF packset.  PRC-1099 would be ideal, but
will
> consider others.  Could be a decent PRC-77 and/or GRC-9 as partial
trade
> if that's better than money.
>
> What's out there?
>
> Al
>
> -- 
> Al Klase - N3FRQ
> Flemington, NJ
> http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/
>
>
>

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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:42:58 -0400
From: "B. Smith" <smithab11 at comcast.net>
Subject: [MRCA] PRC-10 and PRC-6 Land Record
To: "Military Radio Collectors Association" <mrca at mailman.qth.net>
Message-ID: <000501c80053$e9f2ace0$a8d6cc47 at HAL1000>
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    I am hereby announcing the MRCA PRC-10 and PRC-6 land record  for
two 
way communications  between the mountain field exercise OL and base
camp. 
Both the PRC-10 and PRC-6 were used from the mountain to talk to W3PWW.
The 
record was established last week at Gilbert.
It now stands at 11.5 statute miles(9.9 nautical). I am fairly sure that

this record will stand for some time as I am quite sure that no one else
is 
going to spend endless adult hours repairing and  aligning  the sets and

building the battery boxes. BTW the PRC-6 battery box can be found at:

http://solo11.abac.com/zorroab1/PRC-6%20Battery%20Box.htm

The PRC-10 battery box is not yet posted as it is being rebuilt as I now

have the actual battery thanks to Warren.

73 breck k4che
"Crystal-controlled, weak, and on AM is no way to go through life"

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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:54:59 -0400
From: Al Klase <al at ar88.net>
Subject: Re: [MRCA] PRC-10 and PRC-6 Land Record
To: Military Radio Collectors Association <mrca at mailman.qth.net>
Message-ID: <46FA8EE3.3070600 at ar88.net>
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Way to Go Breck!  (Where was Wacki Iraqi with the BC-1000)  W3PWW was 
running one of the 628K1's into a J-pole.  I gues that like a 
generation-X'er talking to a babyboomer's parents.

Al

B. Smith wrote:
>     I am hereby announcing the MRCA PRC-10 and PRC-6 land record  for
two 
> way communications  between the mountain field exercise OL and base
camp. 
> Both the PRC-10 and PRC-6 were used from the mountain to talk to
W3PWW.  The 
> record was established last week at Gilbert.
> It now stands at 11.5 statute miles(9.9 nautical). I am fairly sure
that 
> this record will stand for some time as I am quite sure that no one
else is 
> going to spend endless adult hours repairing and  aligning  the sets
and 
> building the battery boxes. BTW the PRC-6 battery box can be found at:
>
> http://solo11.abac.com/zorroab1/PRC-6%20Battery%20Box.htm
>
> The PRC-10 battery box is not yet posted as it is being rebuilt as I
now 
> have the actual battery thanks to Warren.
>
> 73 breck k4che
> "Crystal-controlled, weak, and on AM is no way to go through life"
>
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>   

-- 
Al Klase - N3FRQ
Flemington, NJ
http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/

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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:01:13 -0400
From: "Richard Arland, W3OSS" <richard.arland at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [MRCA] PRC-10 and PRC-6 Land Record
To: "Military Radio Collectors Association" <mrca at mailman.qth.net>
Message-ID: <00d401c8005e$d9a25740$6401a8c0 at PC718714998166>
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Outstand job, Breck! (For an old Yankee Air Pirate!!)

I will be sure to forward this dispatch to the Ace Tomato Company
forthwith.

See what happens when they take you out of the cockpit and put you at
the 
work bench!! Seriously, great going, and I, too have a battery from
Warren, 
so I plan on getting my two PRC-10s up and running this winter.

73 Rich
W3OSS

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "B. Smith" <smithab11 at comcast.net>
To: "Military Radio Collectors Association" <mrca at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:42 AM
Subject: [MRCA] PRC-10 and PRC-6 Land Record

|    I am hereby announcing the MRCA PRC-10 and PRC-6 land record  for
two
| way communications  between the mountain field exercise OL and base
camp.
| Both the PRC-10 and PRC-6 were used from the mountain to talk to
W3PWW. 
The
| record was established last week at Gilbert.
| It now stands at 11.5 statute miles(9.9 nautical). I am fairly sure
that
| this record will stand for some time as I am quite sure that no one
else 
is
| going to spend endless adult hours repairing and  aligning  the sets
and
| building the battery boxes. BTW the PRC-6 battery box can be found at:
|
| http://solo11.abac.com/zorroab1/PRC-6%20Battery%20Box.htm
|
| The PRC-10 battery box is not yet posted as it is being rebuilt as I
now
| have the actual battery thanks to Warren.
|
| 73 breck k4che
| "Crystal-controlled, weak, and on AM is no way to go through life"
|
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| MRCA at mailman.qth.net
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:05:26 -0400
From: "Richard Arland, W3OSS" <richard.arland at verizon.net>
Subject: [MRCA] Connector Woes
To: <mrca at mailman.qth.net>, <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>,
	<milpack at yahoogroups.com>, <armyradios at egroups.com>
Message-ID: <00d801c8005f$6f9618e0$6401a8c0 at PC718714998166>
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Hi Gang:

I have been playing with several of my MilCom sets and am having a devil
of 
a time getting the audio connectors to couple to the radios. This is on
my 
PRC-74B and my TRC-77A.

I had tried the old saliva trick, but that is only marginal. It took me
10 
minutes to hook a pair of headphones to the 77B last nite! Finally got
them 
on their but is was a fight to the finish.

Some time back someone on one of these lists said something about a 
connector lubricant sold by R-S. Anybody remember that conversation?
Gotta 
get something that works a little easier that saliva.

73 Rich W3OSS

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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:24:15 EDT
From: WA5CAB at cs.com
Subject: Re: [MRCA] Connector Woes
To: mrca at mailman.qth.net, milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Message-ID: <cbb.1a6f9061.342bfdcf at cs.com>
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Rich,

I'm not certain why, but the U-182/U and U-229/U are the worst of all of
the 
O-ring sealed bayonet coupling connectors that I've encountered.  I
suspect 
that if you could push hard enough, you would cave in the panel before
you would 
get a dry O-ring in the cable connector to pop over the nose of the
U-183/U 
chassis connector.

I tried ordinary silicone grease as well as an O-ring lubricant made by 
Parker.  Both worked fine.  I can't say which would last longer.  Saliva
usually 
only works once.

If you are ever caught out somewhere trying to attach a handset or etc
that 
has a dry O-ring, and no grease of any sort on hand, simply remove the
O-ring 
from the cable connector.  Also, the proper way in which to lube the
O-ring is 
to remove it from the connector so that you get grease on the OD as well
as 
the ID.  And put a thin smear on the chassis connector as well.

In a message dated 9/26/2007 12:19:01 PM Central Daylight Time, 
richard.arland at verizon.net writes: 
> I have been playing with several of my MilCom sets and am having a
devil of 
> 
> a time getting the audio connectors to couple to the radios. This is
on my 
> PRC-74B and my TRC-77A.
> 
> I had tried the old saliva trick, but that is only marginal. It took
me 10 
> minutes to hook a pair of headphones to the 77B last nite! Finally got
them 
> on their but is was a fight to the finish.
> 
> Some time back someone on one of these lists said something about a 
> connector lubricant sold by R-S. Anybody remember that conversation?
Gotta 
> get something that works a little easier that saliva.

Robert Downs - Houston
<http://www.wa5cab.com> (Web Store)
MVPA 9480
<wa5cab at cs.com> (Primary email)
<wa5cab at comcast.net> (Backup email)

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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:29:42 -0400
From: "B. Smith" <smithab11 at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [MRCA] Connector Woes
To: "Military Radio Collectors Association" <mrca at mailman.qth.net>
Message-ID: <001701c8006b$34b1b020$a8d6cc47 at HAL1000>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="iso-8859-1"

light oil work, very light, but I use the silcon grease from RS.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Arland, W3OSS" <richard.arland at verizon.net>
To: <mrca at mailman.qth.net>; <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>; 
<milpack at yahoogroups.com>; <armyradios at egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 1:05 PM
Subject: [MRCA] Connector Woes

| Hi Gang:
|
| I have been playing with several of my MilCom sets and am having a
devil 
of
| a time getting the audio connectors to couple to the radios. This is
on my
| PRC-74B and my TRC-77A.
|
| I had tried the old saliva trick, but that is only marginal. It took
me 10
| minutes to hook a pair of headphones to the 77B last nite! Finally got

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