[ARC5] BC-191/375

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 9 Dec 2011 at 13:05, David Stinson wrote:

> > Sigh... the last time I used a BC-191 or BC-375 was in Missoula,
> > Montana in about 1963 when I manned the HF radio station in the
> > local sheriff's office during a long search of the Bob Marshall
> > Wilderness area for a lost hunter....was never found.
> 
> Doubtless a grizzly had the poor fellow over for dinner.....

We thought so too...

> >Ever since then, I have regarded the BC-191/375 with great fondness.
> >It was reliable and worked well, although it was really "clunky". It
> >has a certain undeniable charm about it.
>
>
> If I had to pick 6 USAAC comm sets to define those two eras:
> 
> pre-War:            post-War:
> SCR-183           AN/ARC-3
> SCR-274N        AN/ARC-2
> SCR-287           AN/ARC-8
> 
> ( IMHO,  SCR-522 is a "stew-pot" radio;  came in
>   "hodge-podge" during the war and didn't really survive the end of
> it.)

I have aways viewed the SCR-522 as a piece of crap. Knowing how it 
was built, I cannot easily understand how it could be reliable in a 
fighter aircraft. Too big, too many parts, too fragile. Yet it was 
used in a lot of such aircraft.

I've always liked the AN/ARC-1.

Ken W7EKB