Search And Rescue Radios ( Sorted Chronologically )
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      KOMAR-2MP
  AN- URC 68
      AN- PRC 63

 

 

 

 

 


All American SAR- Radios from their beginning to 1968 are part of the collection. More modern ones are (still) too expensive....
 

BC-778
(1941)

CRC-7
(1942)

PRC-17, A
(1953)

PRC-32
(1958?)

PRC-49 A, B, C
(1962)

PRC-63
(1965)

PRC-96
(1976)

American SAR-Radios

RT-159/ URC-4
(1952)

RT-285/ URC-11
(1954)

RT-278/ URC-10
(1962)

URC-64
(1964)

URC-68
(1965)

PRC-90, -1,-2,-A
(1968ff)

RT-1531, 1535
PRC-112, A
(198?)

You may also read the article by Alan Tasker :
"U.S. Military Portable Radios"

  AN / URC 68 (1965)

is an American SAR -Radio, used by the Army.

Frequencies:
40 and 243 MHz.

 

Technical Data:
Channels:
4 channels, crystal controlled:
here: 40,50 und 243 MHz.
HF Output:
200 and 500 mW.
Modulation:
AM (243 MHz), mcw, FM (40 MHz)
Year of Issue:
1965.
Replaces:
URC-10
Replaced by:
PRC-90