[ARC5] MAARC "hamfest" in Annapolis

[kn7sfz]

Thanks SO much for your contribution Gordon.  I have thoroughly enjoyed 
reading your articles over the years.

Richard kn7sfz



On 6/2/2023 4:27 AM, gewhite at crosslink.net wrote:
>    I posted here last week that I planned to take the last of my 
> "Command Set" collection to the MAARC meet in Annapolis, seeking to 
> get the items I wrote about in CQ Magazine, 1964-1975, into good hands 
> while I could. Well, there was quite a reaction and as a result I have 
> already sold it all, so anyone planning to go to Annapolis for that 
> reason, well it has all already been sold, including the originals of 
> a number of manuals.
>     As many of you know, I gave a large and certainly representative 
> collection of Command Set equipment to the Smithsonian's  National Air 
> & Space Museum in 1987, some of which has probably gone into restored 
> aircraft such as the Enola Gay. Other items now at NASM include the 
> "Type K" prototype, etc, so the Command sets are being preserved.
>
>     I also gave NASM a portion of the papers of the Aircraft Radio 
> Corp then. I retained others in the hope of writing a book on the 
> subject, but was unable to find a suitable publisher. NASM has 
> expressed interest in the remaining A.R.C. papers, which include 
> information on the very early radio industry that grew up in the 
> Boonton, New Jersey area to make use of an early plastic, "Bakelite." 
> Industries in Boonton, near where I lived as a child,  were probably 
> an outgrowth of Alexander Hamilton's "Society for Useful Industries," 
> established at the falls of the Passaic River in Paterson, N.J.
>
>     I am retaining photocopies of many "Command Set" manuals, 
> including SCR-183, RAT, RAV, SCR-274-N, AN/ARC-5, Type 15, etc.
>
>     I wrote a magazine piece for a flying publication back in 1984 
> covering the whole Command Set story . I may be able to scan it so as 
> to make it available digitally, but anyone interested in a hard copy 
> of that can send a self addressed business-size stamped envelope to 
> Gordon Eliot White, PO Box 129, Hardyville, VA 23070.
>
>     I am pretty healthy for 89 + years, but wanted to get these things 
> into good hands while I was able.
>
>                 - Gordon Eliot White
>
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