[ARC5] Can anyone ID this?

[Mike Morrow]

Mike Hanz wrote:

> Has nothing to do with an ARC-5 - it's an adapter for a British style 
> headphone plug to a U.S. PL-55.

Mike!  Don't you know that anything with wires in it made for the military from 1918 to 1970 qualifies as an "ARC-5" something or other for the purpose of auction descriptions?  ATA/ARA, SCR-274-N, SCR-183/283, SCR-178, BC-14, RT-66/GRC, RT-524, ARN-30, DU-1, ARR-5, TBY, BC-221, ARN-6, ARC-27, PRC-77, etc. etc. ... sounds like "ARC-5" to me!  At least that's the flavor of many ebay descriptions.

> here's the URL - makes it a lot easier to click and read:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2251085663

Excellent method!  I sure do like that much better.  It's just as quick to paste in the whole URL as it is to just copy the auction number.  Then, one click and a reader can see what is being pointed out.  Just giving the auction number requires several steps, slow enough under the best connection, but very slow for us dinosaurs still using dial-up modems.  Thus, I seldom look at a referenced auction unless the complete URL is cited.

73,
Mike / KK5F