[ARC5] History and Context of the ARC-5 sets

[J. Forster]

You have to make do with the third best, as the first best never comes and
the second best comes too late.

-John

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> On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, gordon white wrote:
>
>>    The first commonly-used vhf set was a British unit, nomenclatured by
>> the U.S. as SCR- 522 and built here under license.
>>
> My understanding is that the British set was completely re-engineered for
> U.S. production, resulting in perhaps the first item that could be
> considered "plug compatible".  Somewhere I have a picture of the original
> British set (from Electronics magazine) and it is quite different
> internally from the SCR-522 but physically the same outside.  This is
> certainly a case of the AAF telling the Signal Corps that they should
> just duplicate what the British already had, whild the Signal Corps
> insisted it had something much better under development.
>
> Jim W6JVE
>
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