[ARC5] Navy LM Use
Tom Clarke
w4okw at md.metrocast.net
Mon Jun 3 23:04:13 EDT 2013
Hi Scott, et al,
I flew late model P-2V7s in 1968 with VP-18 out of Roosy Roads PR. We
had one ARC-38A
and one ARC-94 (618T) in the radio compartment. There was an ARR-41
also as HF-3. One
overhead wire and a trailing wire too.
will look for my old NATOPS manual to see if there is a picture.
73 Tom/W4OKW
Pax River, MD
On 5/22/2013 10:45 PM, Scott Johnson wrote:
> I don't think the P2V-7 carried a 618T in 1962. Most definitely the
> ARC-38A. I haven't
> Come across a P2V-7 or SP2H that had a 618T installed, I'm sure some of the
> SP2Hs that were held on to into the seventies may have had them installed,
> but
> I would think the 618T would have come later, perhaps in the P3. Even the
> early E model Hercs had 618S sets installed, later to be retrofitted with
> 618Ts.
> I gutted the APS-20B and all the comms from a P2V-7 down in Tucson about
> eight years ago, and the HF setup was an ARC-38A, ARR-41, Mite.
>
> Scott W7SVJ
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