[ARC5] BC-450 Control

[Mike Morrow]

Phillip,

If your AN/ARC-5 display is to be accurate, note that the AN/ARC-5 system does not use nor have an equivalent to the SCR-274-N BC-450-A.  (The closest thing would be three C-26/ARC-5 single receiver controls.)  A typical carrier-based aircraft's AN/ARC-5 three-receiver rack would use a C-38/ARC-5 control for the R-4*/ARR-2 VHF Homing receiver, R-25 to R-27/ARC-5 lock-tuned MF/HF Communications receiver, and the R-28/ARC-5 4-channel VHF Communications receiver in the MT-65/ARC-5 rack.

The two-transmitter MT-71/ARC-5 rack would contain a T-18 to T-22/ARC-5 MF/HF transmitter and a T-23 or T-126/ARC-5 4-channel VHF transmitter.  The modulator would be a MD-7/ARC-5 and the control a C-30A/ARC-5.

Typical AN/ARC-5 with AN/ARR-2 installations were quite a bit more capable and sophisticated (and interesting) than the simple ARA/ATA and SCR-274-N predecessors of just a three years earlier.

Mike / KK5F

>I am putting together a three rack ARC-5 receivers setup to original configuration for a historical display.
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>My BC-450 Control unit is missing one tuning crank.
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>Does anyone have a spare tuning crank they can sell me?
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>Thank you in advance to all who reply!
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>Respectfully,
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>Phillip WB4PAC