Looking for PRC-25 or PRC-77 radio for M274 Mule display only. Does not need to transmit or receive.
Must look complete externally with antenna, back pack and hand set. Any leads or sellers appreciated.
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Looking for PRC-25 or PRC-77 radio for M274 Mule display only. Does not need to transmit or receive.
Must look complete externally with antenna, back pack and hand set. Any leads or sellers appreciated.
Normally this should go in the WTB area...here's a few leads, just hunt Ebay... AN/PRC-25 AN/PRC-77 VHF Low Band collection on eBay! Army Radio Sales Co. :: SOLD OUT ITEMS :: AN/PRC-25 Vietnam Era US Back-Pack VHF Radio military radio Prc Radio prc25/77 Military Radio prc77 Vietnam War MILITARY RADIO PRC-25 / PRC-77 FULL ACCESSORY ANTENNA KIT CW-503 | eBay
And so on...
Well if I could go back in time, I'd gladly give you a couple.
The first one would be the one not properly secured in the radio rack of an M113A1 that nearly broke my leg..........it's yours.
The second one was the one in my backpack when I leapt out of a chopper from about six feet..........done that debus dozens of times, but this was just after the change from steel beer cans to aluminium ones.
Not a pretty sight and got some odd looks from the jumpmaster on pickup.............and I lost four cans, yep, that one is definately yours.
How about the ones that would come up and clock you during fire and movement? You go to ground and the try to take your head off...
That's how I remember them, that and spitting on connectors.Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
Old enough to use them in training, young enough to see the replacement (PRC-117) of their replacement (TCCCS). Well flippy floppy between the TCS and 117 anyway.
There was a little one we'd use during rail loading parties...flat and small. Wished we had it during field ops...apparently had a limited range. I guess that would be compared to a 125 set that didn't work?
We did have the little PRR come on issue in late 2005 and it was issued to each combat soldier in '06, we would run a section net, with a PL channel loaded for emergencies. The Section commander had his PRR tied to the little PRC521with dual PTT switches for commanding the section and bothering the PL commander. It worked suprisingly well.
Having everyone tied in to a small net makes C&C so much smoother.
No, this was before that. After they came back from Yugo spring of '93.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sentryduty
The thing that is hard to find is the original "tech manual" for either the 25 or 77 set.
I have seen ONE hard copy in the last four decades.
However, via the magic of the inter-tubes: http://www.radiomanual.info/schemi/S...67-12_1987.pdf
Getting either unit tuned or repaired without this document is a nightmare.
The original Magnesium batteries are a non-starter as well, but it should be relatively easy to cobble up something that would fit in the battery compartment. For those with the "vintage" 25 sets, you have to also ensure a low-voltage "heater" supply for the "valves" (thermionic tubes).
The vehicle-mounted "linear amplifier" cradle/adapter is a cool bit of kit for the truly hard-core. See: http://www.associated-ind.com/pdf/ANGRC160.pdf
For bonus points, seek out the RC-292 antenna kit. Manual here: http://radionerds.com/images/4/42/TM_11-5820-348-15.pdf
The Diapole antenna as we called it...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruce_in_Oz
The sputnik, those things could be all sorts of fxxxxx up when set up in the dark, daylight breaks and its so lopsided you wonder the antenna wasn't tapping the top of the CP tent.
Often we'd just use a bayonet tied into the wire and thrown up over a tree limb. Just shoot a compass bearing, choose the direction you wanted the signal to go and maybe it would work...
The Dipole was the "Antenna, lightweight" a simple, but versatile piece of kit that could be "flown" as a horizontal or vertical dipole, Inverted "V" or a single, centre-fed "L" . A somewhat "longer" version was available for the HF radios.
The 292 is the big, adjustable ground-plane job on the tall mast with the "interesting" guy-line system. Can also be "launched" into trees, and suspended from a "string", but the trick is to not get it snagged. The variety of antenna elements supplied in the kit mean it can be used from the top of the HF band to almost the top of the VHF band.
"Coolest" HF antenna I ever used was a farm fence. Clamp the "active" leg from the transmitter to the top strand of a barbed-wire fence: (Does not work very well with fences using steel star pickets). The "ground" was a LONG piece of wire laid on the ground at right angles from the fence, (ideal in country where the soil is very dry, or when you don't want to attract "unwanted attention" by hammering a long, metal "ground-stake" into the dirt).
That's right, the ground plane antenna...I forgot about that one. We seldom used the HF sets. The airborne did though...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruce_in_Oz
............as to antenna's, getting dropped in the middle of the outback by a chopper with an oil leak to lighten the load.
With only a flex antenna is no fun, climbing to the top of a paperbark to try to extend the range, complete with the red ants that frequent those species..........you can understand my need to carry beer.
"you can understand my need to carry beer."
For the purpose of enhancing the preparation of the "D" pack, of course.
It was amazing how a small supply of "secret herbs and spices"; paprika, Tabasco, cumin, etc. could liven up "luncheon meat, type 2" or "tuna in oil".
One bloke used to regularly make a passable chocolate rice pudding from the standard contents of a 24 hour pack: Freeze-dried rice, bullet-proof chocolate, condensed milk and finely crumbled "cereal block", all cooked up in a "pan set, messing" over a Hexamine stove.
Flash-backs!!
I'd almost forgotten the Aussie rations, as issued in Canungra and Tin Can Bay...the caramel bar for energy... Tubes of sweetened dairy thing...curry with your rice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruce_in_Oz
The big sucker that said "Look at Me Look at Me" see if you can lob one in on me
Dick
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Finely crumbled cereal block was he in Armoured and used the Cent or Leopard to finely crumb that concrete block :rofl: Ah the memories or is that shudders
Dick
Occasionally there will still be a scent that will bring back the memories of these things...Quote:
Originally Posted by Aussie48
Not sure, but I think I have all the various pieces & parts for the 25 & 77s to use as both back pack and vehicle mounted.
Never got around to getting the jeeps & 3/4 ton restored so they are all stacked in the back of my garage along with the VRC & VRQ stuff.
Back in the day when I started all this manuals were no problem, I just went down to pubs section and got new ones.
Sarge
I never used one in a civilian capacity. Can they talk to other radios, non military? Like maybe CB radios?
Frequency is frequency...we used to catch all kinds of strange calls when we'd be doing a radio rebroadcast or some such. We'd be set up high here in the hills and catch all nature of calls from North America...Quote:
Originally Posted by MikieG
I think I have all of the above, including both a Prc 25 & 77 and a VRC 524. Also got a bunch of other vehicle mtd radios back to Korean War vintage. Never got the vehicle stuff mounted and have long since sold most of my military vehicles.
I guess some day I should dig this stuff out and sell most of it as I'm not going to have but a couple of vehicles to mount it on.
Remember one time I was listening to commo just for S & Gs and heard a call from a unit in the mountains that had an injury that needed to be air evaced. They could not get hold of base so I come up and relayed for them. Just like old times!
Sarge
The vehicle mounted HF sets were usefull, the local lads would tell us where the Police Radar traps were, so we'd help them out by setting up a HF set near their hides and tape the press to talk switch.........while we did a frequency search.
Always knew when we found the right one, the Cop Car would pack up and move elsewhere.
Interesting that we could create interference, buy I guess if you pump enough frequency waves out, even the best units will get disrupted.(this trick was shown to us by an MP, guess he didn't expect us to use it against them)
I would love to have a working 77 if it could be used on nets other than just other military nets.
25 and 77 sets operate in a "band of their own"
They also us "Frequency Modulation" as a transmission method, as opposed to Amplitude Modulation and "Sideband" modes on 27MHz gear..
Thus they are NOT compatible with 27Mhz CB systems and do not extend even close to the 400MHz band used by UHF CB radios.
Given their age, they are still amazing pieces of kit.
In the days before troops used to bring personal media players to the field it was considered a treat to cleverly tune the later the 522 radios to the local FM rock stations. In North America domestic FM runs 88.1 to 108.1 frequency, placing it in the realms of equipment.
But never did we drive around the local urban areas broadcasting "pirate radio" over top of the common local bands for amusement. Soldiers wouldn't do that sort of thing...
I WOULD like to have one so I could again practice fire and movement while wearing it... WAIT! NO I wouldn't!
Just like how I miss pepper-podding in snowshoes, nothing like that sweet whack in the shins to welcome you to the prone position.Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
Except the radio driving your helmet down your nose, and the higher ups telling you this is how it's done when it's real...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sentryduty