{"id":491,"date":"2024-07-05T17:48:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T17:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/?p=491"},"modified":"2024-08-10T17:12:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T17:12:58","slug":"an-prc-9-the-artillery-version-of-the-prc-8-prc-9-prc-10-family-of-radios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/an-prc-9-the-artillery-version-of-the-prc-8-prc-9-prc-10-family-of-radios\/","title":{"rendered":"AN\/PRC-9, The Artillery version of the PRC-8, PRC-9, PRC-10 family of radios"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Edit &#8211; FairRadio ran out of stock before my order, so I wont end up with these.  There really aren&#8217;t many places that have these either so I may have missed my window.  Disappointing but ill keep looking and hopefully get lucky sometime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the SCR300 radio, the Army acquired the PRC-8 (Armor)\/9 (Artillery) \/10 (Infantry) series of radios. These radios were in service for the 50s and early 60s. I previously have taken an unsalvageable PRC-9 as a housing for a modern radio set, but I got a couple of additional salvageable radios which I intend to make operational mostly as issued. The batteries are no longer made, so I wont be able to use those, but there are some alternative power sources I have found that others have come up with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PRC999-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-316\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PRC999-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/stickelman.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PRC999-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stickelman.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PRC999-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stickelman.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PRC999-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/stickelman.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PRC999-210x140.jpg 210w, http:\/\/stickelman.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PRC999-1960x1307.jpg 1960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Refurbished case housing an Icom 880H modern amateur radio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The PRC-9 that I used gave me a bit of familiarity with the innards and the parts that weren&#8217;t corroded I kept.  This should give me some spares, a few of the tubes seemed to be in decent shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From an amateur radio use perspective, the PRC-10 (38.0 to 54.9&nbsp;MHz) covers the 6m band and the PRC-9 (27.0 to 38.9&nbsp;MHz) covers the 10m band.  I selected this model because it was the Artillery version, not for its frequency coverage, but it appears that I got lucky, 10m seems more active to me than 6m over the years I have been listening to the amateur bands.  The PRC-8 (20.0 to 27.9&nbsp;MHz) would have been a good selection too, covering the 15m and 12m bands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been wanting a deeper understanding of radio for quite awhile, and this project should do just that. I did work on tuning 12 series radios (the RT-524) in the late 90s full time, but that was just following a script more than understanding fundamentally what I was doing. My basic understanding is that antennas pick up tiny voltage differences and amplify them but the roles of the various components I am not familiar with. Ill just have to start at the beginning, take this in steps, and slog through the math. The math part I am not really enthusiastic about, but I won&#8217;t gain an understanding if I skip that part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also have a second Transoceanic 3000 that needs repair that I can explore after this project, which should be an interesting comparison of differing receiver designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edit &#8211; FairRadio ran out of stock before my order, so I wont end up with these. There really aren&#8217;t many places that have these either so I may have missed my window. Disappointing but ill keep looking and hopefully get lucky sometime. Following the SCR300 radio, the Army acquired the PRC-8 (Armor)\/9 (Artillery) \/10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}