[MRCA] Got my first mil radio today

[Chance Wolf]

Wow. Sure wish any of my local electronics surplus stores were anything like that. I haven’t seen radio gear in those places for 30 years. 



Sent from my iPhone. Probably because I'm outside wrestling wolves.

> On Apr 28, 2022, at 6:21 PM, Mike <mmcauley at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Was in the local electronics surplus store today looking for something totally non-mil related, and lo and behold I spied a RACAL 931 with battery pack and matching MA-937 vehicle power supply.
> For $45 I just couldn't pass it up.
> 
> So now it's on the bench getting checked out and cleaned up. 
> 
> I'm going to need to source some of the cannon type plug connectors if anyone knows a good source.
> 
> 
> Mike
> KD7VRG
> 
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: scottjohnson1 at cox.net
> Date: 4/28/22 4:48 PM (GMT-07:00)
> To: 'Doran Platt' <jeepp at comcast.net>, MRCA at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [MRCA] Trivia Question
> 
> Just a guess, but maybe a common interplane freq.? (126.18 MHz), or maybe on HF using the fundamental.  If for VHF, it would follow there be an equally common receiver mixer crystal.
> 
> I have a bunch of them around, and 7010 is quite common here as well.
> 
>  
> 
> Scott W7SVJ
> 
>  
> 
> From: mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Doran Platt
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2022 4:41 PM
> To: MRCA at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [MRCA] Trivia Question
> 
>  
> 
> With your kind indulgence,  I ask the following:
> 
> Why do we find a proliferation of surplus CR-1-A crystals cut for 7010 kHz?
> 
> K3HVG
> 
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