I have a tubular frame that mounts a TRA-967 transceiver, a TRA-970 power amp, an MA-972B ATU, a small junction box, and a (missing) battery box. The battery box would be about 13.5" long by 3.25" wide by about 4.5" deep. The box would have two mounting screws about 9.25" apart.

Does anyone have a clue on a Racal designation for this assembly?

Is there any source for the battery box?

Thank you. Alan WA1NYR

Hello everyone, I've been asked by Bob to put this out to the group -

I have a supply of Racal PRM-4031 Manpack workshop manuals on CD ROM.
The CD will self run in a PC and has a menu that gives the options of
installing Adobe Acrobat Reader, Viewing the manual on CD, reading
the information about the CD and Exiting the menu.

The actual manual on the CD is laid out in Chapters as per the paper
manual. You can view/read each chapter on your PC or you can print
out each chapter where by making the original paper version of the
manual. The manual contains all the information about accessories for
the PRM-4031, descriptions about the PRM-4031 and every PCB in the
radio as well as circuit diagrams of each PCB, PCB layouts of every
board, fault finding procedures, flow charts on fault finding. It
literally contains everything one would wish to know about this
radio, how it works and where each test point is and what it should
read on the test points.
It is a very comprehensive manual about the Racal PRM-4031.

Now the bit that hurts, well not in this case. The cost of the CD is
?10.00 (ten pounds sterling) and that price includes UK postage and
packing. International postage is at cost.

If you wish to order a CD please contact me at - keith.watt @
hushmail.com note you will have to go through the authentication
process imposed by my ISP to enable your e-mail to reach me, it is
very simple and it keeps the spammers out.

Regards,
Keith Watt RN (Rtd.)

Hi, Vic (and everyone),

It's just waiting for me to buy a new scanner! As soon
as I do, I can promise you all the Racal Tacticom
"Concise Catalogue" (no printing date on this,
unfortunately, but by the contents I would guess at
mid-1980s) plus the colour brochures (around 8-10
pages each) for the TRA.931 and the PRM HF models.


best regards,


Bob
--- vtuff59795@... wrote:

Hi Bob,
did you ever get around to scanning the
Racal sales brochures you
have? Might be nice to post them on the group page.
Might help me identify
the kit I'm being offered these days!

73's

Vic
G7PYR

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There's also several Racal manpack batteries.

Be careful about those batteries. Combat Radio has the following to say about some of them.

The batteries on eBay, both the 12 and 24 volt batteries with chargers
built in are part of the Yeoman project. There were two projects given out
to tender to produce radios for the new British Army Bowman system, one was
called Yeoman and the other Archer.? The radios therefore have never been
put into production as they were purely development radios.? Limited amounts
of this kit is floating around on the surplus market.? The built-in charger
makes this unit very heavy and the DC cable for the charger is virtually
impossible to obtain.? Ni-cad batteries
inside these units are not 'D' cell, they are larger.

There's a nice BCC manpack morse key, with knee strap, on eBay, at:


ViewItem&category=1502&item=5702298605&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

There's also several Racal manpack batteries.

I've just been trying to set up a Link to Racal manpack items on
eBay, but it's not successful - it works, but even excluding Racal
names for datacomms, respirator, and cellular products, etc, from the
Search term "Racal" it still throws up too many non-green items. On
the other hand, using the Search term "Racal manpack" would have
missed the key above, which does not have the word "manpack" in the
advertisement.

Better than a Link would be the eBay automatic notification service,
using several well though out Search terms such as "Racal
manpack", "Racal tactical", etc, but I cannot see any way to have
these posted automatically into this group.

Anyone got any thoughts how we might achieve something like this?


best regards,


Bob

Hi Bob,

That's the first 4041 other than my own that I've come across! Do you
have any of the items unique to this model - Remote Control
Handset, Extended Control Handset?

All I have is the MA4040A RT. I might have the interconnect cable to the
ATU but I am not sure, it looks like it should work.

I think I have a carrying frame coming.

I really need the VRA4026A AATU and antenna if anyone has them for sale.

Tom

Hi, Tom,

Yes, I've just checked with "Janes", and that shows MA.

That's the first 4041 other than my own that I've come across! Do you
have any of the items unique to this model - Remote Control
Handset, Extended Control Handset?

best regards,


Bob


--- In Racal-manpacks@..., Tom B <tbryan@n...> wrote:

Hi All,

PRM-4040 is supposedly the same, a 4041 w/o the ATU,

The 4040 I have is marked MA4040A, not PRM. It is part of the PRM-

4041.

Tom Bryan

I have a TRA-906M which is not related to the TRA-906
Squadcal in anyway, internal or external. Mine was
built in 1988/89 according to date codes on
semiconductors. 2-12Mhz, 5 watts, internal tuner,
clansman 7 pin connectors and antenna, 100Hz tuning,
12VDC/180mA RX. This could be a great QRP NVIS rig.

I have a service manual but it describes a synthesizer
made of discreet components. Mine is a new style with
a huge racal synthesizer chip as the primary content
on the board. Does anyone have a documentation on the
new style board?????

Thanks,
Chuck Maurer

Hi All,

PRM-4040 is supposedly the same, a 4041 w/o the ATU,

The 4040 I have is marked MA4040A, not PRM. It is part of the PRM-4041.

Tom Bryan

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Hi, All,

I've added a number of other Links to the Web site, the descriptions
of most of which are fairly brief and will be improved later.

If you know of any other sites with significant Racal content, please
let me have details or, if you wish, add them yourselves.


best regards,


Bob

Combat radio (when they had them) was selling the BCC-39B model.

PRM-4030 is a 4031 without ATU

PRM-4040 is supposedly the same, a 4041 w/o the ATU,

Hi, All,

I'm working towards a database of the Racal equipment which interests
us, beginning with the manpacks (including green handhelds
and "squad" radios) themselves, and eventually including all the
contemporary green equipment too. I'd begun this during the last few
days, but thanks to member Alan, I now have a bigger list of manpacks
which includes non-Racal models too. Eventually, I'll add a file of
non-Racal manpacks, since most of us will be likley to be interested
in these too.

The following is the complete list of Racal (including BCC) models
known to me. Before I finish adding a brief description and spec for
each model, is anyone aware of any models which I haven't currently
included?


A13
A14HP
A14LP
A16 (aka PRC-316)
BCC32V (aka SSB32)
BCC39
BCC39C
BCC66 "Jaguar-V"
BCC70 "Jaguar-U"
Caracal (PRM-4740A)
Jaguar-U
Jaguar-V
MA4040A
PRM4021
PRM4031
PRM4041
PRM4051 "Squadcal 2"
PRM4090
PRM4515
PRM4700A
PRM4720A
PRM4735
PRM4740A "Caracal"
RA929G
TRA906 "Squadcal"
TRA921 "Syncal"
TRA929 "Minical"
TRA931 "Syncal 30"
TRA931A "Syncal 30"
TRA931AP "Syncal 30"
TRA931L "Syncal 30"
TRA931P "Syncal 30"
TRA931P "Syncal 30"
TRA931PL "Syncal 30"
TRA931PR "Syncal 30"
TRA931X "Syncal 30"
TRA931XH "Syncal 30"
TRA931Y
TRA967
UK/PRC344
UK/PRC349
UK/PRC350
UK/PRC351
UK/PRC352



best regards,



Bob

Hello to the group,
Good to have a place to gather info about the Racal manpack sets.
I have a BCC-39B and plan to get the vehicular 100 Watt adapter to
use it as a VRG-319 in my M151A2 Jeep.
Bob, I'm curious about the PRM4041, I have never seen one and there
seems to be no info to be found on the internet about them. Could
you post a photo or two in the groups photo section and maybe list
the specs here on the group.

Cheers,
John
K6ERO

Hi, my name is Keith Watt RN (Rtd.), call sign G4MSF. I'm the guy who
got Demetre SV1UY his Racal PRM-4031.

I currently use a Racal PRM-4031, MA-4107 PSU/AMP from home and when
out portable I use the PRM-4031 with either its whip or the 5.4m
masts, of which I have 2 complete 5.4m mast kits and the multi band
dipole kit strung between them. I also have the battle whip, but
never tried it yet as it looks like an extended dummy load!

I also have a TA-4044 100 watt Racal RF amplifier, if anyone has any
documentation on the unit I would appreciate some advice and I am
willing to pay for a copy of the manual. If I drive the amp with 4
watts it will put out just over 100 watts on 80m, but there are a
multitude of BNC connectors on it and it sometimes is reluctant to
switch on to high power. Any help would be most welcomed.

I am also the Co-owner of The Wireless-Set-No19 Group on Yahoo as my
radio interests go further then just Racal radios. I have what I
consider to be the most complete Wireless Set No.22 station anywhere
and it is all original and working. I worked 3500 mile from North
East UK to Boston in the USA last year on 7 MHz to W1HIS who was
using a Wireless Set No.19. We were both deployed out doors and
powered from battery supply so that we were as close to original
working conditions as possible, short of someone firing bullets at us!
The Wireless-Set-No19 group is at -

The Wireless Set No.22 WEB page is at -


I look forward to hearing more from this new group.

Regards,
Keith Watt RN (Rtd.)
G4MSF.

Hi lads,

Nice to see a group for the RACAL manpacks to be born.

Name here is Demetre Valaris, callsign SV1UY, QTH Athens and owner

of

a RACAL 4031.

Great radio, I have spoken to New Zealand with it to ZL1BK, many
times, while I was walking to a nearby mountain here, Mt Ymittos in
Athens with the RACAL 4031 in it's backpack carrier and an 8 foot
gooseneck whip with a 9 feet trailing radial. ZL1BK was using an
FT-817 (5 watts QRP) with a short center loaded whip plus radial,

and

other times a half sized handheld dipole on 14 MHZ. We used the
LONGPATH trick of course.

Hope to hear from you soon.

73 de Demetre SV1UY
e-mail sv1uy@y...




P.S. I will definately notify mu friends Keith G4MSF, who is mad

about

RACAL radios, to join this group too.