[ARC5] submini tubes.

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At 12:33 PM 4/26/2012, Geoff wrote:
>There is a big difference between a one time use design as a fuse and years
>of punishment aboard ship where the RCA SRR series was the worst tube
>shipboard radio ever built for reliability and ease of service.
>
>The KW-32 crypto unit wasnt any better.
>
>Rough seas and gunnery exercises always kept the ET's busy. OTOH the earlier
>RCA RBA/RBB/RBC family were almost indestructible.

That's why, when I was taught the SRR series in ET"A" school,  that they
never appeared on my two ships. (DDR & DD, 58-62)  The SRT xmtrs were 
there, but no
SRRs.   They kept the RBA/B/C ww2 sets....big, heavy, but rugged.

Perry