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Old May 9th 08, 12:19 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.moderated
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Phil Kane wrote:

On Wed, 7 May 2008 00:10:29 EDT, AF6AY wrote:


The AN/PRC-25 was solid-state except for the single vacuum tube
in the PA. AN/PRC-77 was its fully solid-state version. Both
were VHF with channelized tuning (considered abhorent by a few
hams) but turned out to be mainstays for Vietnam field radio use.
Both are now obsolete.


And we will never see them on the commercial surplus market available
to hams, like the WW-II stuff was decades earlier.
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A quick Google search show several surplus outfits selling these things.

Having used them in the military, I can't imagine why a ham would
want one these days.

They are also overpriced in my opinion.

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Jim Pennino

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