[MRCA] A URT-23 and a URC-35 walk into a bar...

[Ray Fantini]

Danger, the following is opinion and speculation. If my sometimes unusual or off color statements offend or if you’re a lover of the URC-35 read no further! This being said I would propose that the URC-35 was in many ways a technological dead end and a radio that was replaced and withdrawn from service as soon as possible. Other radios like the URT-23 or the R-1051 family of radios were around for years and in the case of receivers like the 1051 enjoyed the benefits of upgrades to the synthesizers and ergonomics to make them more functional for deployment for decades but the URC-35 with its weird one of a kind vacuum tube power amplifier and the weight and size was soon replaced by smaller all solid state transceivers from Sunair and Harris. If the URC-35 was in a bar it was more than likely there to drown it sorrows for being such a poor radio and quickly being replaced by Sunair URC-92 and the like while the URT-23 and R-1051 continued to serv.
 Ray F

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From: mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of W2HX [w2hx at w2hx.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 10:02 PM
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Subject: [MRCA] A URT-23 and a URC-35 walk into a bar...

As the new shack progresses. I continue to move in equipment from storage. This is about 550 lbs of radio. Good thing we installed that huge beam in the garage! Next phase will be to get it all running. No small task.
Does anyone know what, exactly, a URT-24 is? I see reference to it with regard to the URC-35, but have yet to see a picture or what it consists of?

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73 Eugene W2HX

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