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by IrishRepublicanArmy February 11, 2004
Get the blue chipmug. the PRC doesn't stand for anything.
the PRC-77 (and the improved PRC-770) are military VHF FM transcievers, that have been used sence 1960, and are slowly being phased out because the US Army likes them.
Frequency Coverage:
30.0000 to 76.0000 MHz
channel spacing:
50 kHz
channels:
920
Power Output:
5 watts
Range:
10 miles on a bad day
5 miles when the VC are shooting at you
30 miles when you get back to base
PRC-77s are used as manpack radios (straped to the back of GIs and used for unit-to-unit communications), if you've ever seen the movie "Platoon", the PRC-77 is the radio that all the Americans are carrying on thier backs.
or they are installed as radios in Humvees and tanks. (i.e. all the antennas on military viecles are connected to PRC-77s.
widly copied by every NATO member, so all the good guys can talk to each other.
the PRC-77 (and the improved PRC-770) are military VHF FM transcievers, that have been used sence 1960, and are slowly being phased out because the US Army likes them.
Frequency Coverage:
30.0000 to 76.0000 MHz
channel spacing:
50 kHz
channels:
920
Power Output:
5 watts
Range:
10 miles on a bad day
5 miles when the VC are shooting at you
30 miles when you get back to base
PRC-77s are used as manpack radios (straped to the back of GIs and used for unit-to-unit communications), if you've ever seen the movie "Platoon", the PRC-77 is the radio that all the Americans are carrying on thier backs.
or they are installed as radios in Humvees and tanks. (i.e. all the antennas on military viecles are connected to PRC-77s.
widly copied by every NATO member, so all the good guys can talk to each other.
by IrishRepublicanArmy October 21, 2003
Get the PRC-77mug. by IrishRepublicanArmy December 20, 2003
Get the kiddie crackmug. by IrishRepublicanArmy December 22, 2003
Get the de-icermug. MAGLITE - The ultimate weapon in police brutality
by IrishRepublicanArmy November 27, 2003
Get the Maglitemug. by IrishRepublicanArmy November 16, 2003
Get the Aluminum Overcastmug. Halfway between the white market (completely legal) and black market (completely illegal). The gray market sells products which are legal to own, but can be used illegaly or are illegal to use completely.
In Virginia, police radar detectors are gray market items because it is legal to own one, but illegal to actully use it.
by IrishRepublicanArmy June 5, 2004
Get the gray marketmug.