[ARC5] An interesting marking on ARA set sn 4839

[Clare Owens]

My unit has a Nameplate:  CBY-46145 S/N 7420 Contract Nos-74912 and a rear
stamp that says Released 1-43.

There is a clear gray stamp GFE PV-2 on the tube cover and next to the name
plate there are two gray stamps on top of each other that after some
careful looking are GFE PV-1 and GFE PV-2.

I know the provenance of this radio and the single rack with shock mount
that came with it.  I bought it while I was still working for IBM, so
before 1977, at a place in Hamburg, NY called East Coast Electronics.  He
had a load of surplus from Calspan Corp. (previously Cornell Aeronautical
Corp - a part of Cornell university) And I bought a bunch.  Calspan had
several aircraft at the Buffalo airport over the years but I do not know if
they ever had a a Ventura or a Harpoon.  Interestingly (or not,,,) I had
worked with the Calspan transonic wind tunnel folks while at IBM, doing
some custom operating system coding for their wind tunnel data reduction
computers.  Standing in the model section of the tunnel was neat as well as
was looking at the 13,000 HP synchronous motor that powered the tunnel.

Clare

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Leslie Smith <vk2bcu at operamail.com> wrote:

>   Hello All,
>   The question is about the meaning of a stamp (red/orange letters)
>   adjacent to the name plate.
>   The letters are:  GFE and PV1
>   Some weeks ago Mike Morrow told me this means, Government Furnished
>   Equipment and (as DS says below) Lockheed Ventura aircraft.  The
>   nameplate accompanying this set was from an early ATA set, 7 to
>   9.1MHz.
>
>    73 de Les Smith
>    vk2bcu at operamail.com
>
>
>
>                                     o-o-o
>
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017, at 22:26, Jack Antonio wrote:
> > On 7/18/2017 9:53 PM, David Stinson wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I have seen this "GFE PV1" marking a few times
> > > on Command Sets.  Does anyone have insight on it?
> > >
> > >
> > My guess
> >
> > GFE  Government Furnished Equipment
> >
> > PV1  Lockheed Ventura patrol aircraft.
> >
> >
> > I have a BC-458 that has the markings
> >
> > A-20-G
> >
> > in two places. Looks like rubber stamp markings, but in grey
> > or silver paint, not the orange Signal Corps stamp ink..
> >
> > It also has another rubber stamp saying  Tested Sept 7, ????
> >
> > but the year is smudged too badly to read.
> >
> > Jack Antonio
> > WA7DIA
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