History:
The American one-channel portable radio PRC-6 was modernized again and again, using the same housing.
The German BW used the 6-channel PRC-6/6 . Both still used tubes. Telemit built a one-channel solid state
"banana", called PRC-6T. Telemit also built the radio shown here:
AN/PRC-6/180/GY , a 180-channel-"banana".
PRC-6T as well as PRC-6/180 were built for former friendly states and never were used in the NATO.
That is why they are so hard to find.
Both need only 12 V to run, provided from 8 D-cells. (PRC-6 and PRC-6/6's battery had to provide four voltages,
90 V, 45 V, 4.5 V and 1.5 V.)
The "bananas" in the collection
- Frequency range:
- 47.00 ... 55.95 MHz
Technical data:
- Number of Channels:
- 180 (synthesized)
- Channel spacing:
- 50 kHz
- HF-Output:
- 500 mW
- Deviation:
- 10.5 kHz
- Squelch:
- 150 Hz tone squelch, may be switched off
- Receiver sensitivity:
- 1.0 uV at 20 dB
- Temperature range:
- -30° ... +60°
- Duty cycle:
- approx 25 hrs 9:1 R/T
- Voltage:
- 12 V ( 8 D-cells )
- Dimensions and weight:
- 375 x 108 x 120 mm H x W x D, approx. 3 kg
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