Collins R-278B Receiver
 

Is this RX as rare as the seller believes it is??

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Bill G8IAY

Collins R-278B Receiver
 

Bill,
The R-278, part of the GRC-27, if my memory serves me. The GRC-27
consists of a transmitter, receiver, and modulator/power supply in a
large vertical cabinet. It weighs a ton... or more.. hi! The receiver
is neither rare nor desirable, per se. The receiver is of the older ilk
of UHF military receivers. It only has 100kHz channel spacing from
225-399.0MHz. The later equipment has channel spacing of either 50kHz
or (as the current eqpt does)25kHz spacing. I suppose if one were to be
resurrecting a mobile control tower or the like, one might want one of
these. Again, though, its only one part of the actual radio set.
That's my take on it. Having said the above, I had one "on the air" a
number of years ago that I got from the AF MARS program. It was
impressive to demo it to friends but that's about all. I would imagine,
however, that the "compleat collector" would need to have one of these!

Bill wrote:

Is this RX as rare as the seller believes it is??

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Collins R-278B Receiver
 

In message , K3HVG
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Bill,
The R-278, part of the GRC-27, if my memory serves me. The GRC-27
consists of a transmitter, receiver, and modulator/power supply in a large
vertical cabinet. It weighs a ton... or more.. hi! The receiver is neither
rare nor desirable, per se. The receiver is of the older ilk of UHF military
receivers. It only has 100kHz channel spacing from 225-399.0MHz. The
later equipment has channel spacing of either 50kHz or (as the current
eqpt does)25kHz spacing. I suppose if one were to be resurrecting a
mobile control tower or the like, one might want one of these. Again,
though, its only one part of the actual radio set. That's my take on it.
Having said the above, I had one "on the air" a number of years ago that I
got from the AF MARS program. It was impressive to demo it to friends
but that's about all. I would imagine, however, that the "compleat
collector" would need to have one of these!

Hi,
thanks for the info, I am only slightly interested in it so its
good to hear from someone who knows what he's talking about.


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Bill

Collins R-278B Receiver
 

Bill wrote:

Is this RX as rare as the seller believes it is??

Well, there were a lot of them made. But they aren't really very useful
for anything, so you don't see a lot of them on the ham market.

If you're into the UHF thing, there are plenty of better receivers out
there, which for the most part don't fetch very much money.
--scott

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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."