[MRCA] GRC-9

[Rob Flory]

Greg's notes resonate well.

"
I guess I'm the only person that knows pretty much all the tricks, or used
too, for the GRC 9.I used to operate one at Ft, Bragg NC in the early 70's.
It was still part of the Special Forces primary equipmentinventory at that
time.  I was temporarily assigned to the 5th SF at Bragg after their return
from VN and did all thePM, storage and a wee bit of repair on the
inventory.The extra little item you have is the other power supply.  It is
smaller and lighter that the big one and is the supply that the A teams
jumped with.  The big one left in storage as unnecessarily heavy to back
pack. The load was typically splt between 3 jumpers, each man had one box in
his ruck sack.  The ruck sack was designedto be dropped, but still attached
to the jumper via a long bungee cord.For an even lighter load an operator
could always bring a battery for the receiver and the same hand rank
systemor similar along for the transmitter.  When the little rig loads up
correctly it loads the crank ope
 rator to a herculian effort.They are about as good t a talking watt meter
as you can get.The radio loaded very well on the freq's we used: 4 - 8 mhz
 using a 100 foot wire as long as a full length counterpoise was installed
underneath.73'
sGregWA7LYOKinston NC Former SGT USSF Det A - 115"