[Boatanchors] ARC-4

Gary Pewitt n9zsv at cei.net
Tue Jan 24 11:10:08 EST 2006


Glen, which RBS unit were you stationed in?  I was at Det. 13, 11th RBS at 
Wilder City, Idaho.  I too was in the T-1 van until it was replaced by the 
computerized T-11 van circa 1966.
73  Gary



At 09:59 PM 1/23/2006, eldim at att.net wrote:

>Hello Ian, and Fellow BA'ers,
>I remember our airborne counterpart was the autotuned UHF AM ARC-3 
>Transceiver.  I worked on this unit which  was located in a rear air 
>conditioned cabinet  of the AN/GPQ-T1A ECM Van,  along with the UHF 
>AN/ARC-27  and the HF Collins 18S-4 Transceivers.  The T1A was a manned 
>ECM van that we had in SAC RBS for training the SAC Bomber ECM crews.  I 
>made my first 2 Meter contact using the ground counterpart combination 
>BC-640 Transmitter and the BC-639A Receiver.  Those were the good ole days.
>73,
>Glen Galati, KA7BOJ
>eldim at att.net
>
>-------------- Original message from "Ian" <ianwebb5 at comcast.net>: 
>--------------
>
>
> > All the discussion of surplus VHF gear got me thinking about the ARC-4 
> that
> > I converted and used on 2 meter AM in the mid 1950s. It sure was
> > insensitive without a preamp I built for it but I made a lot of 100 mile +
> > contacts with it along the California coastal area north of Los Angeles.
> > (Thank goodness for the duct over mostly ocean of 150 - 200 miles between
> > Santa Barbara and San Diego and once in a while into Mexico!)
> >
> > It had an 832 in the final. I remember I had to make the receiver tunable
> > and it actually seemed "stable" but remember those were the days of wide
> > bandwidth and little 2 meter activity and "the standard" for the run of 
> the
> > mill amateur was the Gonset Communicator.
> >
> > Did anybody else have experiences with this? I see some mentions of it
> > doing a Google search and it looks as though perhaps one has appeared on
> > "that place" for auction in the past.
> >
> > Are there any of them still around. It would be fun to see one again if
> > they ever appear for sale at a reasonable price. (I think I pad $15 for it
> > when I bought it unconverted.) In retrospect I guess I shouldn't have
> > thrown it out when I moved on to a real 2 meter transceiver several years
> > after. I remember that I had the power supply I built for it for quite a
> > few years until I had to clean house to get space and foolishly tossed 
> that
> > also.
> >
> > Ian, K6SDE
> >
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