[ARC5] OT: AN/ARC-48

[Robert Eleazer]

In the episode I recall of The Munsters, Herman's radio looked homebuilt.  The prop dept must have had a ball making that radio.  It had an incredible number of tubes, just crammed in there, cheek by jowl, and all lit up.  Wiring up all those filaments must have been fun.  Maybe they started with a BC-654 receiver.
 
I have seen a picture of him sitting at that set used on QSL cards.  He thought he was talking to Mars.  With that set he may well have been able to.

And I was not insulting the capabilities of the No.19.  We were discussing the esthetics of radios and you have to admit that with all those dials and knobs and switches and Russian markings the No.19 looks like a Frankenstein's Monster.

I guess there was a later version, the No.29?  I know this only because a 1974 vintage Fair Radio Catalog had an advertisement for the UHF "B" set removed from a No.29.  It was a stand alone module, it seems. Wish I had bought one back then.

Wayne