{"id":7989,"date":"2024-02-24T06:55:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T06:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/catalog\/vhf-radio-transmitter-receiver-mh-246\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:41:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:41:03","slug":"vhf-radio-transmitter-receiver-mh-246","status":"publish","type":"catalog","link":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/catalog\/vhf-radio-transmitter-receiver-mh-246\/","title":{"rendered":"VHF Radio  Transmitter-Receiver MH-246 (RT-246)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Automatic&#8217; receiver-transmitter with ten preset channels, mainly operated from combat vehicular intercom system (such as AN\/VIC-1); component of VRC-12 series &#8211; family of vehicular VHF radio communication equipment, used by all tactical echelons.<br \/>\nUsed by the US military from 1963 until early 1990s, designated RT-246.<br \/>\nUsed by the IDF during the War of Attrition (1967-1970), the Yom Kippur War (1973), the Peace for Galilee War (1982), the Security Zone Conflict (1982-2000) and the Second Lebanon War (2006).<br \/>\nFrequency range: 30.00 to 75.95 MHz; FM (Frequency Modulation); 920 channels using 50 kHz steps; output power: 35 to 40 Watts; powered by 24 Volts DC; range: 40 km, depends on terrain and cover.<br \/>\nTransistorized and modular, with vacuum tube transmitter final; produced by several manufacturers, including Tadiran Israel, under license of Magnavox, USA.<br \/>\nMain accessories: antenna: AN-1729\/ BA-6707, AN-1188\/BA-6808; mounting: MU-1029; control box: QP-2742; audio accessories: MJD-189, RMQ-454.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1562,"template":"","catalog_cat":[36],"period":[40,43,41],"class_list":["post-7989","catalog","type-catalog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","catalog_cat-tactical-radio","period-yom-kippur-war","period-peace-for-galilee-war","period-second-lebanon-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/catalog\/7989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/catalog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/catalog"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"catalog_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/catalog_cat?post=7989"},{"taxonomy":"period","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/period?post=7989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}