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April 16th 05, 08:22 AM
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wrote: 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... |
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