[ARC5] near a rail line?

[J Forster]

  No, it wasn't  The plant and airfield was at least a couple of miles
  from the DL&W line that ran through Boonton. A.R.C. was west of town,
  which was originally built at the falls of the Passaic River along the

  Morris & Essex Canal. The field certainly was not big enough for even,
I
  think, a B-26. The only planes I ever saw there were single-engined.

Well, maybe they borrowed a bus or something. LoL.

 I  know A.R.C. had essentially dummy antennas. I guess ARL at Dayton
tested
  full aircraft installations, The test results I saw at NRL at
Anacostia
  were all in single-engine aircraft.  Maybe there were tests at the
  aircraft factories.

  - Gordon White

The dummy antenna makes a whole lot more sense. I don't know how it
worked in WW II, but in the late 60s at Boeing and Rockwell a subsystem
contractor would not be responsible for the installation in the vehicle.

The radio contract would be written to specify certain performance into
a specified load. The radio would pass or fail its final inspection on
the basis of a bench test. The integrating contractor would be
responsible for the installation, including cabling, and overall system
checkout.

-John