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From: on Thurs,Apr 14 2005 3:42 am
Be NICE to MARS folks,
Jimmie, maybe they'll GIVE you an AN/FRC-93 for
nothing; it's a Collins KWM2 Commercial transceiver
with a military nameplate.
Don't want one. And it's a KWM-2A, with the extra crystal positions.
It certainly is the KWM-2A.
Nearly a year ago, Len told us:
"The exception was the procurement
of the AN/FRC-93 HF transceiver, the commercial version (full
crystal bank) of the Collins KWM2. [I have the TM on it and can tell
where to get it for free PDF download...even for Canadians... :-) ] "
The commercial version of the Collins KWM-2A is the Collins KWM-2A.
I have a government surplus unit. It has no military nameplate
identifying it as an AN/FRC-93. The units I used in Vietnam had no
military nameplates identifying them as AN/FRC-93 units. The manuals
we
had on hand were Collins KWM-2A manuals.
Well there ya go! :-)
Everybody ought to run right over to LOGSA (that
stands for LOGistical Supply Agency) and tell them...
THE AN/FRC-93 DOESN'T EXIST!
Gosh yes...and TM 11-5820-554-12 doesn't exist, either!
Guess that LOGSA ought to destroy that particular CD
of TMs because Davie's (in-country?) KWM2 didn't have
an "official" nameplate, just the Collins thing. :-)
Oh, and there are about a half dozen versions of this
non-existant transceiver plus several separate TMs
(that's TM for Technical Manual for you civilians) for
ancilliary Collins units to work with it.
Would you like the NSN (National Stock Number) for
this non-existant-nomenclature radio set? :-)
[before you burn all those CDs in your outrage, or
whatever]
Oh, and the manual produced by Collins Radio was
reproduced for most of this TM. That's rather
common for COTS (Commercial Off-The Shelf) electronic
equipment (and other things) and has been done for
many, many years.
Oh, yeah, and TMs are now also distributed on CDs to
all branches of the military. Saves space and paper
plus the weight on shipping the printed versions.
All the branches have computers now, even stuff in
the field. Those computers have "AN" numbers and
"NSNs" also but I don't DARE write them in here due
to the hostile environment presented by die-hard
PCTAs. Those can't exist if Davie says they don't
exist! :-)
Temper fry...