[ARC5] Fwd: Re: Inspector

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Perhaps there's some confusion from Lee's use of "ARC-5".  Did he mean that precisely or as a generic term for all related BC- SCR- etc.?  So, though the Army didn't purchase ARC-5s in the precise use of the term, perhaps the inspector was looking at 'ARC-5 like' radios?

 

 Wayne
WB4OGM

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee <L at w0vt.us>
To: arc5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Mon, Jun 19, 2017 10:48 pm
Subject: [ARC5] Fwd: Re:  Inspector



I said my friend inspected for the Air Corps.  He was in the Army and
wore Army khaki Uniforms.  I've seen pictures of him in uniform.  I have
no idea where he inspected the radios.  Years later he retired from the
Air Force wearing blues and then was a civilian engineer working for the
Air Force.  The guy had an electrical engineering degree.

Lee, w0vt


On 6/19/2017 11:17 PM, Mike Morrow wrote:
> That would be a challenging quest, because the Army did not purchase the AN/ARC-5.  The vast majority of the Army's 1940 and later SCR-274-N sets (quite different from the USN's 1943 and later AN/ARC-5 sets made by Aircraft Radio Corp. and Stromberg-Carlson) came from Western Electric.  There's little doubt inspection would have been made by Army Signal Corps inspectors rather than Army Air Force inspectors.
>
> Mike / KK5F
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Lee <L at w0vt.us>
>> Sent: Jun 19, 2017 9:44 PM
>>
>> I used to have a friend until he died who was an ARC-5 factory inspector
>> for the Army Air Corps.  That was Fred Schnittker, W0NDQ.  Fred is gone
>> now but whenever we went to a hamfest, he would always look for ARC-5
>> units to see if he could find one with his approval stamp on it.  I
>> can't remember what his approval stamp looked like.
>>
>> Lee, w0vt
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