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  1. Wile E. Coyote

    Which radio for the HMMWV?

    They're cool. One guy in Israel had a number of the sleds for sale for what I thought was a decent price awhile ago, though the bits and pieces that go with the system and the MBITRs themselves...good luck. The Chinese folks are on their MBITR Copy MKII at the moment, according to airsofting...
  2. Wile E. Coyote

    Which radio for the HMMWV?

    Paul Keys sells mainly to friendly foreign nations using a pricing formula that's sort of x-% of the original Magnavox sales price to the Government rather than what the collector market can typically bear, but Columbia's a business rather than our favourite vendor at the Hamfest and prices...
  3. Wile E. Coyote

    Which radio for the HMMWV?

    On Ebay? I've seen four in the last 12 mos., some from CONUS - others from China - some from UK (PLGR IIs in that case.) One vendor from China told me he gets them all the time. His last one in November went for a Buy-it-Now price of $150.00 (a bunch went over to China as electronic scrap in...
  4. Wile E. Coyote

    Which radio for the HMMWV?

    FBCB2 or the military GPS units? FBCB2 components show up (mostly screen and CPU mounts - HMMWV system mounts and some miscellaneous cabling including the SIAD and other bits'n'pieces) but so far I've not seen any generation of display or CPU come up. There have been a few of both types of...
  5. Wile E. Coyote

    Which radio for the HMMWV?

    Hi. www.murphyjunk.com He has the both the later SINCGARS RT-1523B model and the earlier RT-1439 model right now which I'm pretty sure are ex-USMC. The RT-1523s have been demilled by removal of the crypto card but that doesn't affect basic operation at all on that version (or the RT-1523...
  6. Wile E. Coyote

    Which radio for the HMMWV?

    I'm gathering one or two replies to this thread were deleted (given my mailbox says x-replies should be here...but aren't), presumably for OPSEC reasons, but...there's nothing special about the computer itself...it's just a ruggedized PC which for the most part is about a generation or so behind...
  7. Wile E. Coyote

    Which radio for the HMMWV?

    AN/UYK-128 I think the first ones were made by Litton (don't quote me on that) whereas the current order seems to be out of DRS Technologies. They're used in a few different applications according to what I've read on the web.
  8. Wile E. Coyote

    Which radio for the HMMWV?

    Right. But they integrated PLGR into a lot of wheeled/tracked weapons systems as the PPS-GPS component in installations from which they'd *never* be pulled for portable use, and when they did the PLGR ---> DAGR swapouts a lot of those systems got DAGR despite the PM GPS directive that they all...
  9. Wile E. Coyote

    Which radio for the HMMWV?

    Supposedly all the weaps systems etc. which used PLGR and had no need for dismounted use are all supposed to get integrated GPS solutions rather than just replace PLGR with DAGR 'wastefully'. I think they're somewhat behind with that. The current JV-5 FBCB2 CPU can have on-board GPS rather...
  10. Wile E. Coyote

    Which radio for the HMMWV?

    Hmm. POSNAV appears to have been Motorola based, but...wow...I'd like to see those pics as I didn't know we played with that system at all. Here are a few pics of FBCB2 with both DAGR and PLGR. Still quite a few PLGRs out there though I *think* most should be gone by the end of next year...
  11. Wile E. Coyote

    Which radio for the HMMWV?

    Cool. That last pic shows most of the FBCB2 Blue Force Tracker type setup with the computer (you can just catch a piece of the monitor at the rightmost frame of the pic) and the VIC-3 intercom. By the driver's right arm (the thing that looks like an armrest) is actually put there to stop the...
  12. Wile E. Coyote

    Which radio for the HMMWV?

    Looks really good with the two KY-57s plumbed in there! I want to do an FBCB2 (SINCGARS, AN/UYK-128 computer) setup in one of the Humvees that go out for film work, but getting a display screen is proving to be a bit difficult. I see they faked one up for "Generation Kill" that didn't look...
  13. Wile E. Coyote

    Which radio for the HMMWV?

    As others have said, pretty much anything from the VRC-12 family thru current SINCGARS stuff is 'correct'. Both were in Desert Storm side-by-side and even later, and the Guard just turfed the last of their VRC-12 family sets either last year or the year before. Most common radio in the...
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