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Making contacts on Field Day.
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This man is a Medal of Honor recipiant. He was a Corman in Nam and was awarded
the medal because he threw himself on a grenade to protect the two men he was bandaging. It didnt go off so he rolled
over and threw it back, it went off after it hit the ground. He really liked my impression from my display at the
Pomona Miltary collectors show and he had to get his picture taken with me. My display is in the background. I
also won first place in the uniform contest there.
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This is how I originally had the GRC-193a set up in my shelter. It looked really
odd in the double stack mount on the top shelf of my shelter, there was soo much extra room on each side of it. I opted
to switch to the side by side mount for accessability and to use up the space. If I get another radio that I want I
may eventually go back to the double stack to make the room.
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This is my M-37 with the 32ft AT-1011 HF antenna on top. This was taken at the MRCG meet at FT MacArthur in
Nov. 2008. I was set up on top of the hill above the Coastal battery.
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This
is the current "Top Shelf" of my shelter, my HF radio. A GRC-193A in the rare side by side
mount. Quite impressive as it sits about 200 pounds of green radio. The RT-1209A is the Radio that powers the whole
set up, basically an HF back pack radio (PRC-104a)with the mobile 20w amp and antenna mount removed and installed in a huge
ground mounted system. Its 100w and 400w PEP selectable, 2-30Mhz, Upper or Lower Sideband or CW/Data and will also Tx/Rx
RTTY if I so desire.
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This
is My PRC-25 base set up. It is powered by a regular 12v power supply. I use the RC-292 antenna below that is 35'above my
house.
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Here is something interesting. This is a PRC-25 or 77 dupleplex unit. It powers
two radios through the power/audio plug on the face of the radio by the antenna mount. It also routes the audio of both radios
through the one handset plug on the front. Also it interconnects to a telephone switchboard. What it does is set up a
duplex, two way radio station that transmitts on one (radio)channel and recieves on the other radio(channel). IT is brand
new with the protective plastic cover over the data plate on top that has the scematic and directions how to set it up.
The unit can be powered by an external battery, 110 AC power, or hooked to a vehicle.
THe problem is that the DC to
DC converter squeals pretty bad, and if you use the audio through the Duplex unit, the squeal bleeds over onto the audio.
I havent tried using it for duplexing yet but may if I find somebody that can hookup with me.
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This
is the RC-292 Antena that is on a pole above my house.
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This
is my PRC-1077, made by Datron in Excondido CA. It is a solid state built in comsec radio that replaces the PRC-77. IT is
full backwards compitable to equipment and frequencies. Notice that it has three power settings. .5w, 1w and 5w.
It is
sitting on top of my other RT-524.
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Here are some of my collection of PRC-25s and 77s. Just came back from an event and
havent packed them back up yet.
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Here are my hand held PRC-68As and PRC-126. With the battery charger. Very fun to use
around large meets and other events when an FRS is handy, but with these you can still go GREEN!
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Here I am in the State Capital Park in Sacramento operating HF pack mobile
on Feb 27, 2010. Funny story, there were a ton of middel school Girl Scouts staying in my hotel, there was some convention
or something going on, well, while I was in the park, they were running around in a group hiding behinde trees watching me.
Made me feel a little weird, and I havent ever been shy about using my gear in public. Well later a Mom asked me what I had
been doing, aparantly the Girlscouts thought I had a fishing pole, and there isnt any pond in the park.
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This is my PRC-174 HF pack. A product of Tadiran in Isriael. It puts out
20w in AM, USB, LSB and CW. I really like it accept that its pretty heavy, add with it the two 12v gell cells and
its heavy. This picture was taken at the same time as the one next to it in the Capital Park.
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