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Radios taken by Taliban
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prcguy
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That’s why I have both the eBay and PayPal credit cards: no interest for 6 months on large purchases.
vagrant
ker-muhj-uhn
So I'm assuming this will be useless to anyone who buys it because you would need the software to do anything useful with it, right...?
Wow okay I was referring to civilians like you and me. Yeah I suppose other governments could get ahold of the Harris Falcon Software, wow...
mmckenna
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Uh, that was a photoshop job. That's one of the recased CCR's produced for the prepper/paintball/dressup crowd. It's not a real Harris radio. He just added the "Not_Taliban" screen name and ship from location.
prcguy
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Harris PRC-152s and Thales MBITRs can be front panel programmed for most anything.
vagrant
ker-muhj-uhn
It was quick and dirty and not even full Photoshop, but the low grade Photoshop Elements. I guessed at the fonts and did not get the kearning right because I used the low grade PSE version to do the edit. I should have put the 100k+ number available someone posted earlier, but I figured the "not_taliban" and ( 0 ) reputation would be the fun hint. I mean hey, you guys were headed down the eBay path of fun, so I thought I would help the parody.
To the person who messaged me, your secret is safe with me. This hobby forum gets way too serious at times and we need all the fun we can get. Next time I might fire up the full Photoshop.
P.S. Thank you Kevin for keeping politics out and keeping it fun...every...single...day.
To the person who messaged me, your secret is safe with me. This hobby forum gets way too serious at times and we need all the fun we can get. Next time I might fire up the full Photoshop.
P.S. Thank you Kevin for keeping politics out and keeping it fun...every...single...day.
Check the technical specs and you will see its sort of a repackaged Bofang (Spellexd?) cheap radio. The frequency ranges are the clue don't be ripped off. I think if a real AN/PRC-152 shows up it won't be sold in volume or at $200 price range.
If you were responding to my post. It was a question to see if many on here could tell the difference. I'm highly aware of the differences between many of the "actual" modern radios and how to differentiate them from the toy/replicas.
If you weren't responding to my post then you can ignore this post.😉
wtp
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for all the armchair lawyers, i submit the 'finders/keepers' v. 'loses/weepers' part of the law.....
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They already considered that and anything fallen to enemy hands gets nuked when removed from the systems.
All they have is a lot of expensive but useless radios.
I think the number 165,000 is inflated as that is just about all the Falcon III radios delivered to the military.
Where field command posts are abandoned, they usually stuff a grenade into the boxes and that doesn't leave much left.
All they have is a lot of expensive but useless radios.
I think the number 165,000 is inflated as that is just about all the Falcon III radios delivered to the military.
Where field command posts are abandoned, they usually stuff a grenade into the boxes and that doesn't leave much left.
prcguy
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Name some radios that get nuked. The worst thing that happens to a Falcon II or III series is if it gets zeroed or the HUB goes dead is the radio will loose its crypto keys and at least one model will loose a little frequency range and make an annoying beeping sound. They are otherwise useable.
I don’t think the frequencies programmed in the radios are authorized for use in Afghanistan, so they can’t legally use them. They would probably just throw them out.😁
There was a video elsewhere don't recall link showing them using apx8000s in the brown tan housings. A minor glimpse showed what to be in background a few gtr8000s at the airport running. Some others showed soldiers only kicking the heads on the 100watt radios in the mraps and other vehicles leaving the bricks intact.
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