[TMC] GPR-92

[John Poulton]

I've had a couple of the GPR-92 radios over the years, all at new homes by
now.  My 'keeper', however, is a GPR-92A that was supplied to the state of
NY for their State Emergency Management Stations.  I have the complete
station, actually, rescued from its flooding bunker near Batavia NY..  See

http://tmchistory.org/tmc_history/photos/ny_semo/index.htm

for a rundown on this chain of stations, put in place in the late 60's in
case of the 'bad thing' happening.  I say "complete station".. almost.  Our
friends at the AWA museum actually ended up with "my" 28KSR.. :). They also
have a complete station, from the Newark site; you can take a virtual tour
of that site as it is now in the photo gallery at the URL above.

The GPR-92 is indeed a handsome radio.  It had a somewhat iffy reputation
amongst TMC old-timers, who preferred the GPR-90 variants, though I'm not
entirely sure why.  It was designed by Murray Gellman (not to be confused
with the Physics Nobel laureate), and employed the then-trendy
tubes-on-PC-boards construction technique, which sometimes went badly
wrong, particularly with the phenolic boards that were common in the 60's.
It has a built-in product detector, of course, which had become a necessity
by the time the receiver was introduced.  The '92 is a fairly decent
performer, at least as far as I was able to determine operating mine a bit,
and it's very, very well built!

73, John K4OZY

On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 4:35 PM Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
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>     Not any traffic here lately so I will drop a rock into the pool.
>     I am curious about the GPR-92. Does anyone actually have one?
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