[ARC5] [Milsurplus] For A.R.C. Type 12 Folks - eBay C-37

[Clare Owens]

Yep, mine has going clockwise:  121.5, 121.7, 121.9, 122.1, 122.5, INT,
FM,126.18, 126.7 and then two blanks.

Do you know how those tiny markers were supplied or were they locally made?

Thanks,

Clare

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Clare wrote:
>
> > I've had a C-37 for several years and always wondered what it was used
> with.
>
> A.R.C. intended the 11-position transmitter select switch to switch mic
> audio
> and PTT lines, and select the desired channel from five on T-11A number 1
> or
> on T-11A number 2.  The eleventh top-dead-center position selected the
> interphone,
> and usually an INT label will be there.
>
> One channel on a T-11A VHF transmitters would be abandoned to allow the
> switch
> to send mic audio and PTT to the SCR-619 instead.  Often there'll be an FM
> label
> there.  Some used the switch position immediately clockwise from the INT
> position
> for FM selection.
>
> A diagram of this installation using the SCR-619 is shown in many
> commercial A.R.C.
> Type 12 manuals.
>
> My best C-37 was reconditioned to like-new and MFP'd in July 1952.
>
> I like equipment of the Korean War era.  Veterans of that war have always
> been the
> least appreciated by the US population, which was especially inexcusable
> then, 60
> years ago, with a very very large segment of the U.S. being WWII veterans.
>  You
> know...the ones for whom Korea and Vietnam were not *real* wars like
> *their* WWII.
> Whoops...I've gotten off track. :-)
>
> Mike / KK5F
> ______________________________________________________________
> Milsurplus mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/milsurplus
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>