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I concur with the others - it looks like one of those Miltope maintenance computers which show up from time to time, usually as a buy-three-and-make-one-good-one proposition. I think most are Pentium I or II at best. I've got an older one here at work that's actually built around a 386...

I used to pick up lots of public service agencies FM on skip in that range in the 80s, mostly from New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and so on, though more than a few California agencies too - everything from DOT/ DPW through the freeway patrol in some places, though most of it was 30.00 mHz and higher...

The Base hours are usually the DRMO's hours even though you're not technically dealing with DRMO, which is why you get the "between 1pm and 3pm every second Wednesday when the moon is in Jupiter" kind of pickup hours. Varies between bases, plus sometimes they just close certain days and don't...

Just found this trying to find my USMC reference again, but this snippet says it was the Army that used them:

Also, just for fun, here are another couple of pics - the first is of the 17 pdr gun type that the proud new owner wants hauled home, and the second is the 6 pdr (57 mm) gun that the 17 pdr nominally replaced (as the 6 pdr had replaced the 2 pdr before it.) The 17 pdr was also installed in the...

Actually that's a 25 pdr on the lawn in White Rock, and it used to be one of two in the Veterans section of Victory Memorial Gardens before some 'let's modernize this place' individual thought they needed a new home. City of White Rock got the one, and the 15 Fd. Arty Museum got the other. The...

Not as a packset configuration as far as I've been able to determine - just as a fixed and/or vehicular type station like your AN/GRC-193. Doesn't look like they were procured in any large quantities and even the bits and pieces are rare as hen's teeth now - though Columbia Electronics had the...

Shakespeare's stuff is good - but pricey. The one usually used for HF to replace all the AB-21-24 and MS-116-118 copper whip antennas is the AT-1011, which Harris also offers under their own brand name. Sometimes complete AT-1011 sets show up on Epay but more often there's just individual...

Rockwell's PRC-515/ RU-20 is a good rig too, though bigger than a PRC-104 (which, ultimately, is why everyone but Canada, Yugoslavia and some USMC contracts went with the PRC-104 instead.) They're a bit on the heavy side and I find the pack arrangement quite bulky, but the radio itself is...

There were two in B.C. that I'm aware of: the first lives in the Ashton Armouries Museum in Victoria (Vancouver Island), and the second was out in front of (beside, actually) the Cloverdale Motor Vehicle Branch near the Cloverdale Fairgrounds for the longest time before someone stole the flash...

Haha. 'Management'. Nice 'Oz' pics, but I also just finished watching the two-season rerun of HBO's "Carnivale" series which had 'Management' an unseen entity dictating orders through others, but never seen himself. Everyone down the chain just parrotted... "Management said so..."...

Plus you can take a simple cord from the battle light and run it down to the 24V radio bus bar mounted to the sidewall passenger-side rear seat area - then you won't even need to change the bulb. Works great. Should've been standard equipment but that would've been too sensible.

Cool. I just posted the following in the other guy's thread about his Canadian first-contract (1953) M38A1CDN, in case you're interested: "Neat vehicle. If you don't know the original CFR (registration) number, they were mostly hand stamped on the top of the driver's side front frame horn...

Kurt's dead right. Old-school mechanics would check to see if the generator was running by having the vehicle idling then disconnecting a battery terminal to see if the vehicle would still run. Great for a 50's generator - not so great for anything with an alternator, as the alternator will...

Neat vehicle. If you don't know the original CFR (registration) number, they were mostly hand stamped on the top of the driver's side front frame horn (underneath about 1/4" of badly applied latex cam paint) between the bumper and the grille assy., if memory serves. Canada kept them in...

That's the aircraft cockpit light, I think. Cool. Didn't know they were still mfg'd. In my own M1009 I've installed a battle light out of an armored vehicle on the ceiling at the point where the roof changes from metal to fiberglass, that way it lights the radio area and the cab equally, and...

:D They're Canadian SME! If you export them without an EUC some terrorist might use them to make a Panjawi Mud Bogger...

Ha. Yes...I was surprised too...but that really *is* a good deal for the RT-1439 version SINCGARS. I'm holding out for an RT-1523 myself, maybe a nice F model that weighs less than a school bus. :wink:

Forgot to mention that the blue dash pad in the Pirate 4x4 pics was also a Canadian forces thing as parts supplies dried up for the correct color replacement late in the trucks' service life and they procured whatever the dealer had in stock, which was Blue. Most of the trucks I saw surplused...

Yeah. They were bought up in Vancouver where the series was filmed and converted in one of their local 4x4 shops which does custom roll cages etc., then stored after the series ended because all concerned expected it to start right up again. From what I understand it was then thought the series...