R-2322/G military tactical receiver part of AN/GRC-215 HF SSB system

This is the R-2322/G military tactical HF SSB receiver. It covers 2 to 30 MHz in 10Hz steps generated by a fast DDS (Direct Digital Synthesizer). The receiver was designed to handle fast frequency hopping, hence the fast DDS. The R-2322/G receiver is basically the same as the better known RT-1512/G receiver/exciter with the exception of two transmitter modules which were omitted from this receiver.
The receiver uses the C-11670/G control head, which is also used for the RT-1512/G receiver/exciter and the RT-1511 man-pack radio. The receiver is part of the AN/GRC-215 Hf SSB tactical radio installation, a mobile shortwave communication system that was developed in the mid-eighties as a nuclear survivable (EMP hardened) NATO communication network, to be rolled out in the European theater. This roll-out was cancelled when the first cold war ended. As a result, most of the never used GRC-215 equipment ended up in the scrap mill, but luckily this receiver made it to the surplus sales.

[@mrrick07]

I'll have to dig out a few of these from storage and see if I can get mine working. I think mine have the exciter in them. N3HXT

[@Inkling777]

Destroying such a marvelous radio should be illegal. They could have be transferred to state/national level emergency services. I wonder if the frequency hopping is fast enough to be used for encryption.

[@Oz2bap]

Where Can i buy military HF radioes

[@_MX_-bs6ux]

very old ones on ebay, the new ones is very difficult to get.