[ARC5] Once again I come to grovel ...

[Michael Tauson]

Hi, folks,

Once again, Michael comes out of his closet to bleat and whinny about
how life is unfair and that 42 is NOT the answer.

Anyway, I'm still in need of information relating to the RU/GF sets as
well as the SCR-183/283 sets.  What I need boils down to things like
coil sets info (identification & tuning range), tuning charts, control
boxes, accessories, connectors and the ever wonderful pinouts,
components exclusively 12 or 24 volt, etc.  In short, about
everything, and all this for both the early and late sets (Type B and
Type D, I think.)

With all this, it would be wonderful to know who actually made the
various sets other than A.R.C..  I don't care so much about contract
numbers or quantities (well, total quantities of the big pieces would
be cool but I think I have that somewhere in my notes) but rough dates
would be helpful to piece together the history side of the book.  I
know about Stromberg-Carlson and Western Electric (and how WE was
gracious enough to pick up the project because poor little A.R.C. bit
off more than they could chew and wasn't big enough to handle the
production on their own) and the vacuum cleaner company the (name of
which escapes me at the moment) who couldn't fulfill a post-war
contract for 1000 R-23As, but were there others?

In reference to the recent discussion about Type 12 equipment, it's
kind of a catch all for Type 11 on up to Type 20 (Type 21?) equipment
– in short nearly all the grey boxes with no dial plate.  Some of
these boxes were pretty much exclusively civilian (mostly because the
military had no need for them), some used by civilian and military,
and some exclusively military (ex: the TV-10 aka CV-431/ARC-60).  The
ones in military service had either the civilian ID plates or the
military ID plates.  It didn't seem to matter which were put in
service.

In my original book, I had a Type 12 control box labeled C-40 but the
pinout was all wrong.  It was for an entirely different box.  The
problem is I can't find out what box it was for.  The C-40 has eight
channels of VHF split into two transmitters with four channels each
(T-23/ARC-5s?) while the mystery control box had provision for 14 VHF
channels split 5-5-4 (2xType 12 and a T-23?).  Both provide for an HF
Command set Tx/Rx pair, an LF receiver & loop and a tunable VHF
receiver.  At the same time, I can find no references that include the
C-56, nor can I find any for the ARC-16950 10 channel adapter for the
T-11B and T-13A transmitters.

Getting somewhat off the beaten track, if anyone has information on
the T-20, T-22, R-20, R-31 and other lesser known A.R.C. products
mentioned in the 1960 brochure (which I have in PDF and which still
says Aircraft Radio Corporation), I should like to beg borrow or even
grovel for them.

In all cases, I am, of course, more than willing to put up cash money
to pay for manuals, copying, papers, postage, and/or other expenses.

And, in other news, I'm probably going to need a manual for an SCR-183
or -283 (I don't know which yet) plus connectors and other toys so I
can set one up as an operating station.  Plus I'll need some Type 12
and ARC-5 accessories (shock mounts and the like) for at least one
display setup.  I'll have more information on both later.

Best regards,

Michael, K3MXO