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UK Racal TRA-931 HF SSB Manpack Radio

The cylinder on the top is the antenna roller unit. The PC board is the frequency snthesizer unit.	The lower right metal box is the USB and LSB crystalfilters.This is the Receiver PC board of the TRA931 radio.	Another angle view of the TRA931.	This is the high quality antenna roller unit. It uses gold plate wire for the inductance coil.

　

The receiver board of the TRA931, left side small rectangle metal box is the front end filters, the top right hand side is the SSB filters

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This is the Racal TRA931 man pack radio.  It is a ssb, cw and am transceiver with about 20 watt output.

Manufactured date around the mid 1970. Power supply is 24V but can be operated down to 12Vonly with low power output. 28000 synthesizer controlled channels are available within the frequency range and a search control provides continuously variable coverage between the 1 KHz channel spacing.

TRA931 is dustproof and waterproof because of completely sealed. This together with conservatively rated components, ensures extremely reliable performance under the most severe environmental and operational conditions.
                    

Technical Specification

Receiver sensitivity: 1 micro volt pd rf input will give 10 mv at output with s/n ratio>15db

Receiver selectivity: ssb, 6 db b/w 2 khz minimum, 40 db b/w  6 khz max.

am, 6 db b/w 10 khz typical, 55 db b/w 30 khz typical.

Power Output: 20 watt high, 5 watt low

Transmitter power consumption: 1.5A for ssb average speech

Antenna: 2.4m whip for operation above 2 Mhz, others long wire and dipole.

Power Supply: 24 volts 3.5 A ni-cab recharge battery MA934

Temperature Range: operating:-10 to +55 degree