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42GPW
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radio stuff

Unread post by 42GPW » July 19th, 2014, 11:28 am

Ok. I dug out an
REC-trans rt68/grc
Power supply pp-112/gr

Id like to know what its worth. I cant post photos with my phone. But can send someone to somebody that can. There both in great condition. They have all knobs and the dials turn freely.

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Re: radio stuff

Unread post by Aswayze » July 19th, 2014, 2:37 pm

Disclaimer: This is from a "user" perspective rather than a "collector"

It is hard to say on the "older" GRC 3-8 series stuff. While they are neat units, they are old enough now that they are quite difficult to keep operational. When we were still using the RT-68 that the Israelis installed in the BTR-40 it generally took me a few hours of monkeying around, changing tubes and tapping vibrators to get it up and running every time we wanted to use it and even then, it would generally go south again in fairly short order.

We finally sold all of our GRC series gear off via Ebay and the MVPA convention. I think we got $150 for the RT-68, the power supply, and the RT-70 all mounted up on it's rack. At that time, everything was operational and I was able to fire the system up and demo it to the buyer. We sold off a variety of RT-66 and RT-67 radios as well as additional power supplies that we had been trading parts on for a while for around $50-$80 each and a few of the RT-70 units along with their interphone amplifiers for a bit more since we had them configured into fairly decent intercom systems.

While I learned a lot about radios trying to keep those things running I cannot help but feel that it was not time well spent.

Shipping is the biggest killer on these, you pretty much need to sell them locally since the additional cost of getting them from place to place adds quite a bit to the overall cost.

I would say that a fair price untested assuming you have the mounts would be $125-$150. Without the mounts probably $60-$80.

Tested good add about $30 to value.

Hope this helps!

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