Hello. I have for sale a military HF shortwave SSB transceiver, military
designation AN/GRC-215

The radio covers 2 MHz to 30 MHz in 10 Hz steps, using a high-speed DDS
synthesizer.
It is capable of USB, LSB and CW as well as data.
It comes with EVERY interconnect cable and runs directly from 110V AC or
220V AC. RF output power is 500 watts+, produced by four leisurely-running
parallel RF amplifiers using two MRF150 MOSFETS each, with phenomenal
linearity and carrier-to-noise performance.

The GRC-215 was developed for deployment in the Western-European Regency Net
(in wartime called the FAN or Flaming Arrow Net). This net was targeted to
be a tactical "nuclear hardened network", based on shelterized mobile units
to maintain shortwave communications on the battlefield when all else has
failed (read: After a nuclear conflict). See also
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/regency-net.htm
Needless to say the radio therefore is built like a battleship, it probably
has cost the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of dollars, and it shows.

The regency network was supposed to be deployed in Europe at the end of the
eighties but when the wall came down and the Cold War ended, deployment
never happened, and the equipment was surplused.
As such, my GRC-215 is NOS, unused.
If you are into collecting military radios, look no further. You will not
find a better military HF radio. Only the best components have been used
throughout. To give you an example, EVERY RF path in the transceiver is
switched using high-speed Kilovac vacuum relays, in both the receiver and
the transmitter. There must be like 30 of these relays used throughout the
radio, NO switching diodes are used anywhere in the RF paths. The use of
these vacuum relays allows fast frequency hopping under full power
conditions, but also normal single-frequency operation is possible

It has a microprocessor controlled RF pre-post selector that gives a very
narrow RF passband for any frequency selected in the operating frequency
range, with phenomenal out-of-band rejection BEFORE the mixers. This
pre-post selector allows multiple GRC-215 radios to operate in near-vicinity
at maximum power and as close as 10% of the set frequency, without mutual
interference. As such, not even the Icom IC-7800 comes close to the
large-signal handling performance that the GRC-215 offers.

The receiver uses two cascaded Collins mechanical filters for the ultimate
selectivity. The transmitter has its own mechanical filters.
I can go on and on about the quality of this radio, but I will limit myself
here to a list of the included components:

- C-11670/G control head using direct-entry keypad and green plasma display
- RT1512/G receiver-exciter (can be 19" rack-mounted)
- TN612/G Pre-Post selector (19")
- AM7296/G quad MOSFET RF power amplifier under CPU control and full VSWR
protection (19")
- PP8097/G Power Supply capable of 115V and 240V (switchable) (19")
- All interconnect cables and AC power cables
- First Echelon TM handbook for the RT1512/G receiver-exciter

email me at if you are interested in this ultimate
military HF transceiver!
Only serious inquiries please