Audio

Audio accessories for communications equipment.

SRI-M550 Amplified Speaker

Oct 052010

I bought this amplified communications speaker at a military surplus swap meet. It’s a nice little powered speaker which is intended for use with manpack radio sets (particularly ones with digital data capabilities). It is powered by a 9V battery which fits in a sealed compartment at the bottom of the unit. It is housed in a rugged aluminum chassis, and has a pair of clips on the back which can be used to hang the speaker from one of the “roll bar” handles which are common on these manpack sets.

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AN/TRC-179 “Regency Net” HF/SSB Transmitter/Receiver

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May 292007

AN/TRC-179 "Regency Net" HF/SSB Transmitter/Receiver

The AN/TRC-179 Force Terminal is part of the “Regency Net” system, which was a radio system fielded in the 1980s. Regency Net was designed to survive the electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) from a nuclear airburst. Thus, its members are a lot more complicated than other radio systems with similar capabilities, with lots of filtering on all electrical inputs and outputs. The set covers 2.0000 to 29.9999 MHz with LSB, USB and data modes. The Regency Net members include a frequency-hopping Electronic Counter-Countermeasures (ECCM) mode. The sets can function in single-channel mode with the ECCM card removed, and they were often deployed this way to non-military users such as FEMA.

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