[MRCA] AN/PRC-64

[D. Platt]

Richard Arland, K7SZ wrote:
> I recently parted with my PRC-64. I wasn't using it and it was gathering 
> dust in the basement, so, with everything else going on with our upcoming 
> move to Georgia, I decided to sell it.
>
> A former Australian SAS troop bought it for the Royal Signals/SAS museum in 
> Australia! I sent the radio to him and it arrived in about 12 days.
>
> THEN...I got an e-mail from him that really set me back!!
>
> He said that the color & markings on the radio set were from one of the 
> Australian units he was assigned to for THREE tours!! Not only that, the bag 
> had Royal Signals markings on it, also. These were traced to another unit he 
> had served in. Now, he is researching old radio logs and equipment 
> dispersment info to find out if he actually had operated THAT particular 
> PRC-64 during his stint in the SAS.
>
> Talk about a very, VERY small world!!
>
> 73 Rich K7SZ
>
> PS: The radio is part of an interactive display in the museum allowing 
> visitors to actually talk to operators in the next room using the 1W AM 
> position or CW. Really, really neat.
>
>
> 73 Rich Arland, K7SZ
>
> MSgt, USAF, Ret.
> Military Pro-sign: "Alpha Romeo"
> USAF Tech Controller for 20 years!
> Fuchu "Water Walker" 68-70/74-79
> Lajes Field 70-73
> 3rd Herd 73-74
> "Flintlock"/SOTFE 79-84
> Langley AFB 84-87
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Rich, 
I see in your tag line that you were in a MOB, and also at Lajes.  In 
the late 60's, I was a tech-rep assigned to the 2nd MOB at Sembach.  I 
was supporting the TRN-17 TACAN and the ITT GCA.  I did get to rub 
shoulders with the Herd when we did the NEXRAD at OKC (and Tinker).  In 
the mid-90's, I was the Govt. project manager for, among other sites, 
the NEXRAD radar system at Lajes.  We put that one up on top of the 
extinct volcano... Santa Barbara?   I recall all the great eating places 
in Pria. I  got a tour from the Comm Sqdn (our sponsor) of the HF-SSB 
airways setup.  As a kid I'd hear Lajes Airways and think about that 
exotic place.  I was there, generally, in the summer/good wx part of the 
year but the initial site selection was done in March, as I recall.  We 
had horizontal rain up on the hill.  Lajes is the first place I ever saw 
an all-female aircrew, a KC-10 bunch from a reserve unit.  The 
interesting thing was that they were all on a first name basis, even on 
base.  I overheard the boomer addressing the A/C by her first name.  
Sort of a stretch, I thought.  Maybe its something to do with the new 
thinking regarding "crew-integration/integrity". 

Jeep   K3HVG
ex 95th FIS (ADC) ADW and DOV, Det 1, 113th TFW DCANG (ADW)

"We were all young..... once."