[ARC5] SCR-183 and the Air Mail

[William Donzelli]

> I believe, based on the documentation I've collected and that
> which has been kindly supplied by several of our members,
> that the poor Army airmail flyers were stuck with versions of
> these old designs, plus transmitters from either GE or Western Electric,
> not SCR-183.  Or, if sets of the SCR-183 type, they would need
> to have been "GF" sets cribbed from the Navy.

If you throw together an SCR-*-183 type receiver with a Navy/NESCo model
GM, you get an SCR-202 (per SIG 5 Aug 1945 edition).

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org