Hugh, et al
The comments are truisms. The ARC-27 became obsolete for several reasons. Weight and technical specs. Channels in the UHF aero band, not unlike VHF aero expanded in the 60's and 70's.  The ARC-27 simply could not fill the bill. That said, an airframe that had an ARC-27 pretty much stayed there. The military was grandfathered for a number of, otherwise non-compliant, radio sets.  FMS and surplus to the third-world remained for a while to include radios, IFF, and radar.  The FAA guys here will confirm that they accommodated the military's lack, at times, of channel flexibility. "Come up on guard..."
Jeep K3HVG
On 03/26/2024 1:43 AM EDT Hubert Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
 
 
Winter of '95 - '96 i spent in Omaha Nebraska. I went one day over the river to Council Bluffs IA.
There was some kind of shop there that sold 'classic ham radios'. They had radios alright, but nothing
like i really liked, and the prices were, i thought, real retail. I didn't think there would be much of a
market for these things. ( I still wonder if there ever was a high point, as the appreciative audience for
such gear seems to be decreasing. ) Anyway i must have seen an ARC-27 there, and the owner fellow
told me he had a supply of more. Now, that was a radio i knew would not sell. With the quoted here
numbers manufactured, there is a massive oversupply compared to the few who would actually want
one. I suppose like the masses of vacuum tube VHF aircraft radios, they mostly went to scrap.
-Hue Miller
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