There must have been several Collins employees in the looney bin, as it was
a pretty diverse team: JP Giacoletto, M.R. Hubbard, Horst Schweighofer, EK
Vick, Fred Holm, John Goetz, Emil Martin, H. Lehman, and Gordon Nicholson.
Production started in late 1950, and with USAF contracts added to USN,
Collins was producing 1000 sets per month. The initial contract was about
15,000 radios, produced by September 1952. Western Electric produced
another 10,000, and Admiral built 25,00 for Collins, All tolled, Collins
built 40,000, so my math says 75,000 odd ARC-27s were produced That's a lot
of 2C39s! In addition, 25,000 GRC-27s were built! No wonder everyone owns
at least one! Can you imagine how cool that radio must have seemed in 1952?
I still marvel at how well it works after 70 odd years. Need to try to dust
of our 222 MHz AM net here in PHX.
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Sent: Monday, March 25, 2024 12:05
Subject: Re: [ARC5] ARC-27
An engineer I worked with in my first job out of college, at OC-ALC, had
been in the USN as a radio tech. He was taught how to work on the ARC-27
and said that word was around the tech school that the engineer who designed
the ARC-27 had gone insane. The students found that was easy to believe.
Wayne
WB5WSV
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