[ARC5] My R-25/ARC-5 and ARA CBY-46104

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 14 Oct 2012 at 0:00, Mike Morrow wrote:

> Ken wrote:
> 
> > According to Gordon White's documentation, there was one of those
> > receivers for every 5 airplanes in the entire air service.
> 
> I posted two days ago information from the AN/ARC-5 LF/MF/HF Components
> Maintenance Manual AN 16-30ARC5-2
>        ( http://bama.edebris.com/manuals/military/an-arc5/ )
> Figure 8-55, that states:

Yes. I had gotten confused, since I have also been chatting with Gordon on another matter.

All the information I posted came from Mike, not Gordon.

> That implies that anticipated usage was infrequent and contingent.
> I doubt any hard and fast one-to-five-airplane correlation to actual 
> acquisition ratios of the R-25.

Makes sense to me: thank you for the information.
 
> Most R-25 units that I've seen in the past forty years have been new or
> even new-in-box, like the units that John Meshna was selling in the
> mid-1970s.

The fellow from whom I got all of my "ARC-5" receivers had bought tons of stuff from 
Meshna. I sold all my NIB/NOS versions some time ago on eBay to either collectors or to 
restorers of warbirds. None of those I have left are in collectible condition, much less 
museum quality. I got no transmitters with the estate: only receivers.

>  Just like the R-24/ARC-5 BCB receiver, it appears that all
> these common R-25/ARC-5 receivers and their associated T-18/ARC-5
> transmitters found very little actual service use.

Undoubtedly that is the case. Too bad, too.

Ken W7EKB