[R-390] R-1247 Nasa Receiver info

[Mack Rogers]

I recall seeing some surplus dealers and even a few individuals that had the complete AN/GRC-26D shelters with all the radio gear still intact but only the shelters and gear, not still on the truck.

Which brings up the interesting question of exactly why something that was supposedly for NASA use only would show up on the mil lists as being a standard military piece of gear? AN/GRC-129 shows to be a standard AN/GRC-26D with modifications? <big grin>

Could we be seeing one of those deals where NASA needed it but didn't want to pay the price tag themselves? I used to see train loads of brand new military heavy construction equipment, bulldozers and etc., going into one of our TVA nuclear plant construction sites. A few days later that brand new military construction equipment would roll out of the TVA shop repainted and renumbered as TVA property!? <grin, wink>

73s
N4VGB
Mack Rogers

 



--- On Thu, 2/25/10, rbethman <rbethman at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: rbethman <rbethman at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [R-390] R-1247 Nasa Receiver info
> To: r-390 at mailman.qth.net
> Cc: "Mack Rogers" <n4vgb at yahoo.com>, "James M. Walker" <chejmw at acsu.buffalo.edu>
> Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 5:34 PM
> Those 2 1/2 ton trucks set up as
> GRC-26Ds, were "pre-positioned" in 
> Europe.  A very large number in Germany around 30+
> years ago.
> 
> Send a message to WB2FCN! <James M. Walker> <chejmw at acsu.buffalo.edu>
> 
> He's whom saw them in big numbers.  Don't know about
> the AN/GRC-129.
> 
> Bob - N0DGN
> 
> On 2/25/2010 5:18 PM, Mack Rogers wrote:
> > Strange as it may be, the AN/GRC-129 shows up on the
> mil lists as being a modified version of AN/GRC-26D! Wonder
> where NASA parked those deuce and a half trucks!? (big grin
> and scratching head)
> >
> > SSB adapter for a T-368!? We could all go for one of
> those!
> >
> > 73s
> > N4VGB
> > Mack Rogers
> 
>