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No. 16869
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Powering surplus radios is also a bit of a challenge, as they use military batteries, and you'd have to do heavier niggerrigging to get them to work. Whereas, you can easily find 12v chargers of different sorts, and cobble together a battery pack rather easily.
The largest thing is that most military units aren't really built for scanning a band to talk to "anyone" as you will actually be doing with amateur radio operations, as even point to point over HF you need a series of frequencies to look at, considering propigation and so on. Same time different day, you may have talked on 40m yesterday but now you need 80 or 160 even today.
It's also much easier and cheaper to get accessories and equipment for civilian equipment, than to do the same for military gear most of the time. Plus, military gear is made with military specifications in mind, which while in some cases (example being prc-148 or 117F) have significant overlap into civilian use should you be able to find them, but they still have limitations in some regards that civvie gear wouldn't have.
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