[MRCA] Usefulness of a PRC-113?

[Ray Fantini]

I have collected, repaired and bought and sold many URC-101, 110 and just recently bought my first URC-200 a couple years back and find them to be fun but way over priced radios. All the URC radios are not only ground to air but also can function as tac sat radios so they have FM and can operate split frequency. The 110 can move in 5 KHz steps and other then lacking PL they net easily with Ham repeaters. Don’t know anything about the PRC-113 other then its built by Magnavox where the URC family is all Motorola but have to wonder why they are always commanding huge amounts of money?

I have bought broken URC-101 radios for as cheap as $100 and can usually sell a working 101/104 for $400 and a URC-110 for $500 to $600



Ray F/KA3EKH

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I have used mine on the MRCA 144.25 at the shows, monitor aircraft at the local airport.  I am unaware of any PRC-113 that can do FM.

K1HF

On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 5:12 PM Ken Krausgill via MRCA <mrca at mailman.qth.net<mailto:mrca at mailman.qth.net>> wrote:

I agree with Scott, I put one together about two years ago mostly because I think it looks great and I wanted a way to be able to monitor aircraft from my truck.



It may be fairly useless but I still love it.



I have no idea how common the FM variants are, I have never seen one.



Ken

KD2GFM



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As a pilot, I love having it in my hangar, plus I can get into the weekly 2M AM net here in Phoenix.

I also like monitoring the UHF air band.

Overkill?  Sure, but what a beautiful radio.



Scott V. Johnson W7SVJ

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Gentlemen, I’m going to expose some ignorance and ask a (probably) dumb question:



Is there any useful amateur application for PRC-113, beyond LOS on 2-meters? Can it do repeater splits, and how common are the models that can do FM?



I never thought twice about these rigs, but they occasionally pop up in photos of green radio shacks, etc.



Thanks for any help and 73

Scott, kc8kbk

South Florida

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