[ARC5] Navy LM Use

[Geoff]

Since Im the one who posted that P2V installation photo and the comments 
from the radioman/navigator I must consider he knew what he was talking 
about when he was aboard the P2V-7 during the Bay of Pigs. He did call it an 
ARC-94 (618T) as did Tom below.

Carl



>I do indeed believe that, I just don't believe the 618T was installed in 
>the
> P2V in 1962.
>
> Regards,
> Scott W7SVJ
>
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> Behalf Of Tom Clarke
> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 8:04 PM
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Navy LM Use
>
>
>
> 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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