[ARC5] ARC-5 modulator FS

[William Donzelli]

>    My instruction book, issued under contract  order No. 1470-NY-41, is 
> labeled "RADIO SET SCR-274-N  Practically all the components have -A 
> nomenclature
> 
>      I have seen it as SCR-274N in correspondence.

I think because the SCR-274N nomenclature was such a bastard, it really
never gelled. SCR-274-A did gel, but as everyone knows, did not make a
noticable impact, being a different set.
 
>     Actually, Aircraft Radio Corp worked with the Air Corps for a long 
> time before signing Navy contracts, and the Navy  contract came about 
> first because the Navy did not have either Ft. Monmouth (Signal  Corps) 
> nor Wright Field (Air Corps) bureaucrats, who in 1940 wanted their own 
> designs, which failed. The Navy had the Naval Research Laboratory, in 
> Anacostia, MD, which was busy with Radar and only tested the radio 
> equipment.

This is also how all those Americanized British radars came into being
(SCR-527, SCR-588, and so forth).

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org