From: Patrick Jankowiak (recycler@swbell.net)
Date: Sat Apr 08 2006 - 17:17:31 PDT
Chance Wolf wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Horrocks, Aaron" <ACHb@pge.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 7:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [MV] NOS military radio antenna base MX-2799 AB-719/VRC on Ebay
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>>HEY! I was bidding on that...
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> In Canada we used those right up until the 151 left service, if I remember
> correctly. Before we went to the roll cages anyway. I've seen quite a
> number of ex PPCLI M151A2s set up for the MX-6707 atop a bracket assembly
> mounted above the spare tire (not the standard American one that goes on the
> corner), with a special angle-bracket mounted on the left side rear of the
> vehicle set up for the "box base AMU" or the MX-2799. My own M151A2 was set
> up that way too.
>
> For quite awhile we were getting nicely rebuilt and repainted MX-2799s out
> of Crown Assets, all pristine inside thanks to the efforts of a rebuilder
> which is still in business, "Valeriote Electronics" (now just known as
> VALCOM) located in either Quebec or Ontario. One of our local chapter
> members was doing some shopping here in Vancouver in his M151A2 with an
> MX-2799 mounted, and one of the higher-ups from VALCOM just happened to be
> walking by and noticed the old "Valeriote Electronics" sticker. At the time
> this fellow said he'd help out the collectors with whatever he could (and in
> fact one of our members managed to get something rebuilt years later on the
> QT using leftover parts once the item had been purged from Canadian
> inventory) - but my recent contact with them a few years ago was entirely
> less than positive ("Because of Security Concerns we can't do anything for
> the General Public...<party line>...)
>
> I like the 2799 better than the 6707 despite the fact it doesn't have a knob
> to manually change the tuning range like the 6707, as the 2799 doesn't seem
> to be subject to the same water ingression problems to anything like the
> same degree. In fact, I don't think I've ever had a bad 2799, where I have
> poochified 6707's stacked like cordwood. I guess the only real headache is
> finding the bottom mast section for the MX2799 as opposed to the more common
> one which fits the 6707, but they show up now and then.
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