[ARC5] USN Control Box Characteristics

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 4 Apr 2009 at 12:07, Mike Morrow wrote:

> of their aircraft gear.  The control boxes for the AN/ARC-1, -2, -4A,
> -5, and -25 have no such jacks.  Only the early C-51/ARC-4 control box
> has audio jacks.

Although this may not be the forum on which to ask this, I 
would like the collective opinions of the various gear 
mentioned above by Mike.

The ARC-1 seems to be the best of that type (VHF-AM) of 
rig, but the ARC-3 and its later variants seem to be amost 
as good or perhaps even better (they certainly were 
capable of far more channels), while the ARC-4 was a 
piece of junk. I don't know anything about the -4A.

The VHF versions of the ARC-5 seem to me to be 
unnecessarily "disjointed", having too many different 
required parts.

I am curious about their history. I have read a very short 
article on their history, lacking in real detail, written by 
Chuck Teeters, W4MEW, and always wanted more info.

Another rig I have always been fascinated by is the ARC-2, 
one of which I have now, thanks to a member of our group 
here.

Ken Gordon W7EKB