[ARC5] ARC-5 Receiver Question

[Mike Morrow]

Marvin wrote:

>If I had to guess, (which I am doing now!) I would suggest that they were 
>painted for useability reasons, that being that the black wrinkle paint is non-
>reflective, mostly, and the white-on-black lettering is easy on the eyes in a 
>darkened aircraft.

Good, except that command radios were operated from their remote control boxes.
Those usually were black wrinkle, except for some late SCR-*-183/283 stuff.

That reminds me of another inconsistency in "paint/no paint" philosophy at
W.E. Co.:  They made the RU-16/GF-11 and RU-17/GF-12, plus the RU-18 and RU-19.
These were always painted, but they didn't really need to be.  But the RU-18
and RU-19 were liason receivers for the GO or GP transmitters, so maybe those
did need paint.

Mike / KK5F