[ARC5] C-744/ARC-5 usage?

[Ian Wilson]

Very interesting, thanks everyone.

73, ian K3IMW

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Mike Hanz <aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org>
wrote:

> It was part of the trend toward 6" and then 5.75" wide "rack mounted"
> control heads rather than the old mélange of disparate surface mount boxes
> used from the early 1930s to 1945, Ian.  Your C-744 was the last of the
> breed for the ARC-5, and connects to the receiver rack and flex drive
> tuning port on the front of the receiver.  More on them at
> http://aafradio.org/flightdeck/box.htm
>
> 73,
> Mike  KC4TOS
>
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> On 5/16/2015 12:22 PM, Ian Wilson wrote:
>
>> A C-744/ARC-5 control unit followed me home from
>> the swap meet today. I can find this in AN 16-30ARC5-2,
>> but it doesn't explain how it would be mounted in practice.
>>
>> The rear of this small box has an 8-pin male connector
>> and a splined "spinner" shaft for the tuning control. This
>> needs a male-male flexible coupling to tune the receiver.
>>
>> Does the C-744 plug into a receiver rack, or some other
>> piece of mating hardware? Was it intended for service
>> purposes, or something operational?
>>
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