[TMC] GPR-92

[Francesco Ledda]

I would love to have a GRP-92 to match my GPT-750.

Best, Francesco K5URG



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> On Mar 21, 2021, at 16:50, John Poulton <jp at cs.unc.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>    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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