[ARC5] G+G Catalog

[Mike Morrow]

Jay wrote:

> You had to actually go there (G&G) to be a Believer, There
> was an entire upstairs warehouse wall of 4-5.3 ARC-5's(T-25?)
> ...This was circa 1969-1970.

The last catalog I received from G&G was in 1982.  It did not seem to have been updated in more than a decade, so I suspect that if I had ordered anything from the catalog, it likely would NOT have actually been available.

While my submarine was being overhauled at Portsmouth (NH) Naval Shipyard in 1976, I'd drop by every few months at John Meshna in Lynn, MA.  He still had many NIB T-20/ARC-5 (4.0 - 5.3 MHz) and T-21/ARC-5 (5.3 - 7.0 MHz) transmitters and NIB R-25/ARC-5 (1.5 - 3.0 MHz) receivers, but not much else in the "command set" series.  They also had used R-65/APN-9 LORAN A and RT-70*/GRC (47.0 - 58.4 MHz FM) units.  I bought one of each of these units, and I still have the T-21/ARC-5 units still NIB in unopened packaging...41 years after I bought it.

Mike / KK5F