[MRCA] AN/TRC-1

[B. Smith]

   Our best telephone feat so far at Fort Miles was to use the RM-29 
with the BC-1306/BC-474 and allow the "Duty Officer"  to use a BC-611  
and walk around the compound and talk to the "Plotting Room" in the 
bunker. This year Dave set up at Ft. Mott but I had to cancel out. Sorry 
Dave.
Z

On 5/25/2018 2:25 PM, Ray Fantini wrote:
>
> All of this talk about frequencies and licenses makes me want to rant 
> about one of the stranger projects that I want to do. For no 
> particular good reason I want to build up a AN/TRC -3 four channel 
> carrier phone system for use somewhere, maybe at Gilbert or wherever. 
> For those of you uninitiated the TRC-3 is a pair of TRC-1 receivers 
> and transmitters along with a CF-1 Carrier telephone terminal. Have 
> seen lots of TRC-1 radios around for sale and no one ever appears to 
> buy them considering that they are wide band audio and operate by 
> crystal control in the 70 to 100 MHz range.
>
> For years now I have wanted to attempt the challenges of locating all 
> the parts like the telephone multiplexer, spiral four cable and the 
> very mysterious TRC-1 antenna kit that I have never seen yet alone saw 
> one for sale. But the biggest issue is the operational range being 
> above six and below two meters. Think there may be some sort of pager 
> operations or something like that in the 70 MHz band but not certain.
>
> Also would be interested because this will be one of the rear 
> occasions where I admit I don’t know it all but was there multiplex 
> carrier equipment for use with the VRC-12? I have a log periodic kit 
> that its label implies that it’s for a multiplex system in the 30 to 
> 80 MHz band and maybe a Vietnam era system would be more appropriate 
> to what I want to do.
>
> At Fort Miles when I do things there they have a couple people that 
> are into the wire line communications way of life and thought this 
> would be a great opportunity to integrate wire line with radio beyond 
> just doing a simple signal pair remote control. And there does appear 
> to be a lot of that TRC-1 stuff around. Was any of it ever modified 
> for two meters? I have no issues running wide band FM across someone’s 
> repeater input.
>
> Ray F/KA3EKH
>
>
>
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