[MRCA] AN/PRR-9 Video

[chancewolf at me.com]

I remember a PS Magazine page that went something very close to:

“You may have heard about a ‘combined’ AN/PRC-88, but that’s actually the AN/PRR-9 receiver and the AN/PRT-4 transmitter and they’re as ‘combined’ as they’re ever going to get.  They won’t get out there like the AN/PRC-25, but you wouldn’t want a Prick 25 dangling from your wrist, would you?”

I think guys latched on to the ‘smaller, lighter’ part of things figuring they wouldn’t need to lug around the 25…but didn’t take any notice of the limitations, hence the bad rap.   What’s interesting is that so many of these things came out on the surplus market NOS – but in CARC green.  They always seemed like a product of the Good Idea Fairy where the thinking stopped at how they should be used…and not how they *would* be used.    Best description I’d ever heard called the PRR-9/ PRT-4 combination “a slightly better alternative to shouting…”  

 

 

 

From: mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Tim
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2026 4:52 PM
To: Clare Owens <clare.owens at gmail.com>
Cc: MRCA (Military Radio List) <mrca at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [MRCA] AN/PRR-9 Video

 

Yep - he did a pretty good review of the receiver, absent an R/T field test.  Interesting to find it reviewed by a civilian on YouTube!

I find the pair to be pretty good (in peacetime!) within its limitations.  They actually sound great.  Here's what I have learned about them and my own field testing: https://www.n6cc.com/prt-4-prr-9-squad-radios/

 

Often derided because they didn't produce "long range", they were intended to provide short range (only) within a squad, far better than hand signals at night!  Same idea with the BC-611 altho both were limited by the technology available at the time...They were both a step along the way...

Tim

N6CC

 

On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 11:08 AM Clare Owens <clare.owens at gmail.com <mailto:clare.owens at gmail.com> > wrote:

I agree, very complete and well done.  makes me want to get my PRR9 and PRT4 down from the shelf.

 

73,

 

Clare N2RJB

 

On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 12:07 PM Dave Merrill <r390a.urr at gmail.com <mailto:r390a.urr at gmail.com> > wrote:

Well done, IMHO.

 

https://youtu.be/99J9WjIjqXs

 

--... ...-- Dave N9ZC

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