[ARC5] [Milsurplus] ARB Canvas Cover

[J. Forster]

Simple answer...  people forget. A case in point:

About 10 years ago, I was in a physical rehab program that involved twice
weekly exercise sessions of about an hour each. While sweating on the
treadmill, another guy and I became friends.

Turns out, he had entered the Navy in roughly 1944 and had been trained to
service the APS-4 RADARs. This is a set which has interested me for some
time, so I brought a couple of pieces of one to a class session. He didn't
recognize them, although he would have had to have used at least the Test
Set on a regular basis. He did remember being glad the A-bomb meant he'd
not have to go neared to Japan.

This was a guy that had worked in the electronics industry all his life
after the war until his retirement a few years before.

-John

=================



> off topic
> I have been reading the canvas cover discussion with interest.  How can it
> be that we have so much uncertainty of the use of use of these canvas
> covers when their use is within living memory? ( sorry for the clunky
> sentence?) 
> Not a criticism but rather and observation how perishable historical
> information really is and a suspection of how much historical knowledge is
> not quite correct or even in some cases an outright guess or fabrication.
>
> Brings to mind how given a few stone tool fragements and a cave wall
> painting or two some people construct elaborate descriptions of stone age
> family life and sexual morals.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
> To: Mike Hanz <aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org>
> Cc: arc5 at mailman.qth.net; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Saturday, March 2, 2013 9:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] [Milsurplus] ARB Canvas Cover
>
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Mike Hanz <aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On 3/2/2013 11:10 AM, J. Forster wrote:
>>
>>> The ARB cover I have here does not cover the connectors, electrical ot
>>> spline.
>>>
>>
>> True.  Nor did the ARMN photo mention covering the set (an ARC-5
>> transmitter rack) with anything - just covering the connectors with Dow
>> Corning Ignition Sealing Compound.  As I said, we're just speculating
>> here.
>>  No real smoking gun to give you, sadly.
>>
>
> Then there's the RAX-1. Was recently flipping through the manual and saw
> that it includes a set of 3 canvas covers, one for each set. The front is
> totally open, and from the little I've learned and seen (primarily on the
> aafradio pages, I admit), these receivers seem to have predominantly
> been installed in the belly of much larger, land-based aircraft like the
> PB4Y where they would be less-exposed, if at all.
>
> One would guess that some covers were meant for storage and others for use
> in flight. Perhaps the RAX-1 covers were meant to keep them warm and comfy
> so they'd yield good info? (o:
>
> ~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4
> ______________________________________________________________
> ARC5 mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/arc5
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:ARC5 at mailman.qth.net
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
> ______________________________________________________________
> ARC5 mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/arc5
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:ARC5 at mailman.qth.net
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>
>