[ARC5] Return of Needful Things

[David Stinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Tauson" <wh7hg.hi at gmail.com>
Subject: [ARC5] Return of Needful Things


> 1. I have a Type 12 portable communicator and its documentation, and I
> have an RAJ manual.  I have seen reference at Twinbeech to SCR-274-N
> equipment being used in a control tower in England during the war.
> These are the only non-aircraft installations for which I have any
> reference for A.R.C. equipment.  Does anyone have anything covering
> any others - vehicle, boat, fixed or portable - using any type of
> A.R.C. equipment?  

I have period documentation of SCR-287 and SCR-274N being mounted
in fast motor launches (sorta-like PT-boats) being used in the 
South Pacific in air-sea rescue work.  They launched from 
life-saving stations on misc. islands in the south Pacific.
Reads as a good example of "The new gear went to the front."
"Strip the radios out of this hanger queen and install them in the boat."
I also have photographic evidence of SCR-274N used for ground 
control at a Carribean air base.

> 2. The original Model B based GF produced 1.5 watts output while the
> GF-1, also Model B based, produced 3 watts.  What was the difference
> between them and were there any SCR-A*-183 transmitters that
> corresponded to the GF-1?

All that information is in my "stuff" at home.
Soon as I can, I'll get to it and look that up.
The tube line-up in the early sets was different, for one thing.


> 3. What's the difference between ARA and ARA-2 receivers?
Navy Ships 242 says ARA-2 cancelled and reassigned to ARA, IIRC.

More information when I get home.
73 D.S.