AN / GRC-106A (a slang term . Ombre noun. Angry-106 [ˈæŋɡri ten sɪks] ) [1] is an American military short-wave automobile radio station that can be installed on command vehicles, trucks, armored personnel carriers and tanks [2] . Designed for command communications at all control levels of the corps , up to and including the battalion . Designed in the early 1960s. [3] The PCT tests were completed by the spring of 1963, [1] after which it was put into service and put into serial production in the spring of 1966 [4] .
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Station Composition
The AN / GRC-106A includes a transceiver and amplifier , whose elemental base consists of ten transistors and three lamps . Quartz frequency stabilization, transmitter power 400 W, operating frequency range 2-30 MHz. The kit, along with the radio station, includes the installation of MT-314 or MT-3140 for mounting the PCT on army vehicles.
Based on the AN / GRC-106A equipment, other HF communications equipment was also designed. In 1975, the AN / GRC-106A was replaced by the unified single- band equipment AN / GRC-96 , made entirely on semiconductors .
The operating experience of AN / GRC-106 in Vietnam and the cases of transistor burnout as a result of power surges revealed the need for a voltage limiter mating with it [2] . Specifically for the AN / VRC-12 and AN / GRC-106 radio stations, the US Army Electronic Parts Laboratory in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, developed a single-diode transitional voltage limiter with one diode (instead of the existing diode-matrix limiter with 18 diodes), released an experimental batch and sent for operation by a contingent of American troops in Vietnam in January 1968 [5] .
With the AN / GRC-106 radio, removable teletype devices with a roll printing device AN / VSC-2 (for jeeps) AN / VSC-3 (for armored personnel carriers ), AN / GRC-142 (for mobile kung type command posts) can be paired . [6]
Production
GRC-106 radios and MT-314 units were mass-produced at General Dynamics Corp. factories . in Rochester , New York [7] [8] . Since 1968, an alternative supplier was involved in a program to reduce budget costs along with the main one (GD), offering equivalent product quality at a lower purchase cost; GRC-106 radios were produced by Magnavox Co. in Fort Wayne , Indiana (primary producer), [9] and a limited batch of Cincinnati Electronics Corp. in Cincinnati , Ohio (formerly AVCO Electronics Div.). [ten]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Lightweight Vehicular Radio . // Military Review . - May 1963. - Vol. 43 - No. 5 - P. 101.
- ↑ 1 2 ECOM Single-Diode Design Replaces 18 Formerly Used . // Army Research and Development . - July-August 1968. - Vol. 9 - No. 7 - P. 29.
- ↑ Weapons System: 1970 . // Artillery Trends . - May 1962. - P. 20.
- ↑ FY1967 RDTE Budget Goes to Congress . // Army Research and Development . - April 1966. - Vol. 7 - No. 4 - P. 31.
- ↑ Physical Sciences Progress Reviewed . // Army Research and Development . - January 1968. - Vol. 9 - No. 1 - P. 21.
- ↑ New Radio-Teletypewriter Family Links Fast-Moving Forces . // Army Research and Development . - December 1966. - Vol. 7 - No. 11 - P. 29.
- ↑ Army RDTE Procurement Contracts Total $ 452 Million . // Army Research and Development . - May 1966. - Vol. 7 - No. 5 - P. 18.
- ↑ Army RDT & E, Procurement Contracts Total $ 450 Million . // Army Research and Development . - January 1967. - Vol. 8 - No. 1 - P. 15.
- ↑ Major Army RDT & E, Procurement Contracts Total $ 380 Million . // Army Research and Development . - September 1968. - Vol. 9 - No. 8 - P. 13.
- ↑ Electronics VE Awards Honor Work of 5 Firms . // Army Research and Development . - May-July 1977. - Vol. 18 - No. 3 - P. 40.
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Literature
- Chistyakov V. Communications of the US Army Corps, Foreign Military Review No. 11, 1977, pp. 39, 40.
- Fiedler, David M. More efficient operation of the AN / GRC-106 . // Army Communication . - Summer 1984.
- Wiltshire Robert B .; Moore, James . Operation of the AM / FM Retrans . // Army Communication . - Summer 1984.