prc-8

[windchaser]

i just picked up a prc-8 in new condition, no chiped paint or scratches the eagle and stars are in red paint just like the day it came out of the factory.does anybody know were i can pick up an after market battery adaptor for it. it needs an antenna and some power and thats it. thanks for any help you can give me. windchaser usmm ret.

 

[prcguy]

There are companies that make battery adapters for the PRC-8, 9 and 10 that hold lots of little batteries to make the high voltage. Cost about $75. There is also a French company that made a switching power supply that fit in the battery box and ran off some smaller batteries. A Google search will find all the info you could ever want.
Once you get power and an antenna figured out, what are you going to do with it? The PRC-8 covers 20 to 28MHz FM with very wide deviation and not very computable with modern narrow band FM. A PRC-10 will at least cover 6M and communicate with more common Korean war wide band FM equipment.
prcguy

 

[windchaser]

thanks for the info i will do a search. dont know yet it was in such good shape , like new so i traded a spare distributor for a m151 jeep for it. selling all my m151 jeep parts for radio stuff, also some m1a parts. windchaser usmm ret.

 

[Cowthief]

You can operate it in the FM portion of 10 meters but the AN/PRC-10 is MUCH preferred as it can be operated in the 6 meter band with a license or in the 49 MHz band at,
49.83 MHz
49.86 MHz
49.89 MHz
under part 15 rules without a license.
The AN/PRC-6 banana talkie can also operate in this range as well as the world war II SCR-300.
All of this CAN be made to work but is very heavy and very low power.
As an example, a Yaesu VX7(r) can be modded to do 28 to 999 MHz transmit with no gaps and do an average power of one watt, runs on rechargeable cells and will fit in your coat pocket.
A Motorola Sabre can run 2 to 4 watts depending on model and cover several bands by simply having several talkies, the Astro Sabre is cheap right now as narrow banding 2013 is causing massive surplus to appear.
Our local state agency has them by the crate and is researching disposal options.

 

[prcguy]

Its not legal to use a PRC-10 in the unlicensed 49MHz band under part 15 rules and you didn't even list all the 49MHz channels. Where do you get this bogus info? Do you think its ok to give people bad advice so they can operate illegally?

And the Yaesu VX7R cannot be modded to transmit from 28 to 999MHz unless you want to rebuild all the RF sections of the radio and reprogram all the firmware to make it play. That will never happen even if you did state in a previous post that VX7s or VX8s were made by Yaesu for some government agency or some other nonsense which is more BS than a Texas cow pie.
prcguy

You can operate it in the FM portion of 10 meters but the AN/PRC-10 is MUCH preferred as it can be operated in the 6 meter band with a license or in the 49 MHz band at,
49.83 MHz
49.86 MHz
49.89 MHz
under part 15 rules without a license.
The AN/PRC-6 banana talkie can also operate in this range as well as the world war II SCR-300.
All of this CAN be made to work but is very heavy and very low power.
As an example, a Yaesu VX7(r) can be modded to do 28 to 999 MHz transmit with no gaps and do an average power of one watt, runs on rechargeable cells and will fit in your coat pocket.
A Motorola Sabre can run 2 to 4 watts depending on model and cover several bands by simply having several talkies, the Astro Sabre is cheap right now as narrow banding 2013 is causing massive surplus to appear.
Our local state agency has them by the crate and is researching disposal options.