** VHF Engineering TRC Special

Object/Artifact

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Radio Alpha

Image: Joe Veras, K9OCO

Image: Joe Veras, K9OCO

Name/Title

** VHF Engineering "TRC Special"

Description

Transceivers for 50, 144, 330, or 432 MHz

Category

Transceiver, VHF FM, Kit

Made/Created

Manufacturer

VHF Engineering

Date made

circa 1977

Valuations

Notes

See text

General Notes

Note

The TRC Special was a TRC-2 transceiver case with one of VHF Engineering's transceiver kit boards inside. It was available for the 50, 144, 220, and 432 MHz bands. The unit shown has the TRX-144 board, and is a 15-watt 2 meter transceiver. It is complemented by a VHF Engineering Synthesizer II; $259.90 (TRC-Special)/$169.95 (Synthesizer II). A large part of VHF Engineering's product line consisted of circuit board kits.