[ARC5] OT The BC-659- what were they thinking?

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 2 Jun 2016 at 18:10, arc5 at ix.netcom.com wrote:

> Y'all don't forget that the widely available ATA 2.1-3 MC transmitter would have been at home in 
> a 274N installation. Maybe even a reason for that late production run of them built as ATA but on 
> an ARC-5 chassis?

Yes, but the ATA and the ARC-5s were Navy gear. Although I have "heard" (somewhere) 
that Navy radio gear was sometimes used in AAF aircraft when some special 
intercommunications was required, like perhaps when AAF aircraft were used to support 
Marine efforts, it was NOT even remotely "common".

However, I am NOT "historically knowledgeable" about much of this stuff.

Ken W7EKB