Search And Rescue Radios ( Sorted Chronologically )
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      TRP 1
  CRC 7/URC4
      RT-159/URC-4

 

 

 

 

 


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"

  CRC 7

is an American SAR -Radio from 1942.
This was the first handheld two-way voice radio.
It was used by the Navy, but may also have been used by the Army Airforce (AAF).
 
After WWII it was used on two meters by many Radio Amateurs.

Frequency:
140.58 MHz.

 

Technical Data:
Channels:
1 Channel, crystal controlled.
HF Output:
50 mW.
Sensitivity:
3 uV.
Modulation:
AM, mcw.
Year of issue:
1942.