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PLGRs are indeed all over, despite their official classification, as many were given to aid groups for Hurricane Katrina - many were sold to USFS/ BLM/ DOI through GSA - our allies sold a bunch through surplus sales - dumpsters full of them went to China as electronic scrap - and DRMO itself...

It's probably the AN/PSN-8 GPS, pic (hopefully) att'd, as the part no. is a Rockwell-Collins format part number, and the only other early ground-based pack GPS unit was really the AN/PSN-9, but that was made by Texas Instruments and wouldn't have the Rockwell p/n. Basically the AN/PSN-8 and...

Yes...thanks much for the link. Lots of Clansman stuff is starting to show up here in North America thanks to the almost complete absence of anything electronic being released by our own military, and Clansman has always been a complete mystery to me. There's another site here: VMARSmanuals...

FSS problems are the worst with those things, and the GRM-55 will only allow indirect tests of certain modules. Fair Radio Sales had a bunch of the GRM-55s and still might - and Mike Murphy has (or had) the PRM-34s. Whenever I've seen those things go south, they usually don't track the...

Yeah..duuuh...17 digit VINs weren't standardized until 1981, and since these things hail from 1976 - a 13 digit VIN is okay. Monday-brain.

VIC-1 systems are quite reliable if you follow the manual when you're hooking them up, otherwise you'll turn the main switch into a very expensive fuse. I don't know much about the VIC-3 but have heard all around the collectors venues that sourcing cables and connectors is a nightmare even if...

The VINs are strange - 13 digits instead of the usual 17 - and none of the usual "1GCT.." or "2GCT.." prefixes to let you know if they were built in the U.S. or Canada. There's no dashboard VIN plate on them either -- just the one on the door pillar, which is repeated again on the...

Austin Aviation frequently has the correct cables for that antenna when used with the PLGR - and NOS to boot - so go through his listings if you need the cable.

I have a few of those too. Near as I can figure, the cable itself is meant to hook into the back of the SINCGARS vehicle mount at the GPS connector, as it won't hook up to a PLGR with that cable, though the antenna itself will work if you have the appropriate cable for the PLGR. It won't...

Very likely the power wiring is haywire as OPCOM suggests. I don't have my manual handy but I think there's also a heavy-current diode in the 524s that shorts if the voltage spikes or is reverse-polarity, so if the power switch were turned on when you slid the radio into the tray with the...

That tray in the M1031 pic is a sub-tray from a HMMWV which looks like it's been modified by the local motor pool to mount in the M1031, as I've never seen an official MK with anything like that - not to say it doesn't exist - only I've never personally seen one. That's a SINCGARS tray, too...

Hardest part to find is those guards. Out of all the CUCVs I've ever had or seen at GL and GSA, I've come across exactly two guards - both of which are now on my own M1009 :lol: Come to think of it, I haven't seen any at local MV swapmeets or even the MVPA conventions. Hmm.

M1008 pickup (yours is the shelter carrier version) had a radio rack that sat in the cargo area up against the back of the cab and fitted various items from the VRC-12 family radios depending on vehicle role etc., but most seem to have been stripped out and the vehicles re-roled to straight...

Nice B-25 there too - N345BG North American TB-25N - comes with a free Divorce. :)

Parts..no. Unfortunately the WA area scrapyards were pretty much scavenged clean of anything usable when guys were building them up out of earlier disposals. Last things I saw were a bunch of stripped and cut suspensions and a bare rear body tub that looked like it had a close encounter of the...

Axle-shaft universals are problematic on those things, and any bit of slack exacerbates the problem because it delivers a shock-load to those u-joints when you let the clutch out and the drivetrain "takes up the slack" before delivering a nice jolt to your wheels. One problem is spline wear at...

Old school cordless phones were down there too. Most were in the 46-49 Mhz garbage band like baby monitors and such-like but some were 35-38 mHz, at least in the 80s and early 90s from what I remember. My scanner would pick up some of it but boy - were those old tube sets hooked up to the...

Haha..yes..the McD's drive-thru locally was on the same freqs or thereabouts. I had this giant AN/GRC-7 setup sitting on a table humming away in all its hard-charging, heavy-duty, not-yer-momma's-old-CB glory - and out of the speaker comes this anemic, panty-waist, nasally, chardonnay-sipping...

That was one of John H.'s in B.C. Three were turned in to Doctor MO ex-USDA Forestry about...oooh...six years ago I guess...after they were told they couldn't be sold through GSA like other Forest Service FEPP vehicles. Ft. Lewis sold them off coded DEMIL Q with a mutiliation-on-site clause...

I think he's saying he's reduced the price by $175,000 -- not that he's selling at that price - at least the way it reads to me. Nice piece of kit, but maybe I'll hold out for a Bronco :)