[MRCA] URC-4 World Record?

[Ray Fantini]

Each year at Gilbert several of us, including myself have had fun operating ARC-1, ARC-3, SCR-522 and URC-4 sets on 2 meters AM There is something to be said for the experience of operating vintage gear and the satisfaction of getting something up and running yourself, and the only legal use of this equipment today is on the Ham bands.

Ray F

-----Original Message-----
From: mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mike Morrow
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 2:52 PM
To: mrca at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [MRCA] URC-4 World Record?

> There are scores of collectors who have these sets sitting on a shelf 
> and doing nothing with them, guess they can't figure out how to hook 
> up 10 dollar store 9 volt batteries and a single C cell.

Or...perhaps they can't see the point of ham-hacking an authentic piece of military gear into something that, after modification, is *still* useless and is now very worthless to anyone who values the item for its military history.

That's only my guess, of course...I may be wrong.  But I doubt that it is less accurate than the "too stupid to hook batteries together" theory. :-)

Mike / KK5F