[ARC5] [Milsurplus] ARC-5 Receiver Question

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I'm not sure about the RU-17/GF-12 (possibly in M4 Shermans) but the 
RU-16/GR-11'a were used in M3 and M5 Stuart Light Tanks and in Halftracks.  Year 
before last I procurred and helped install a set in one of the latter.  
Stuarts don't leak too badly but the Halftracks are open vehicles.  The boxes 
containing the radio set and the remote control box would hardly qualify as 
weathertight, let alone watertight.

In a message dated 2/18/2010 5:20:54 PM Central Standard Time, 
kk5f at earthlink.net writes: 
> >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.
> 

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