[Boatanchors] ARC 5 stuff - LIST

[Jim Brannigan]

This started out to be an informative thread........

It too bad that the aluminum foil hat brigade felt obliged to opine...

Jim

>  The problem was that
> certain people with an axe to grind (equivalent to today's liberal 
> Democrats)
> wanted to put the Army and Navy down and did so profusely in print.  The 
> myth
> that military radios generated TVI was also helped along by some civilian
> companies wanting to sell radios (run by non-vets for the most part).  And 
> by the
> 60's it was an accepted fact among poorly educated hams.  But it was a 
> myth
> nonetheless.
>
> If you exclude the prewar SCR-178, 179, 194 and 195, none of the radios 
> that
> the US used during WW-II are TVI producers.  If the person tuning them was
> even marginally competent.  Which the postwar conversion handbook writers 
> were
> not by any stretch of the imagination.  And this includes even the much 
> maligned
> BC-640.  Which one handbook writer claimed produced TVI even when turned 
> off.
> That statement was mere rabble rousing bullshit.  I once had two of them 
> on
> the air.  And they worked just fine.  None of my neighbors ever 
> complained.
> And we were for those days in a fringe area, well over 30 miles from the
> nearest TV station.  It was all self-serving BS.  Only simple minded 
> nincompoops
> fell for it.
>
> With regard to classification, the WW-II Restricted became Confidential,
> Confidential became Secret, etc.  Virtually all Restricted TM's were 
> declassified
> in late 1945 shortly after VJ Day or in early 1946, before the 
> classification
> name change.  Consequently, after the classification name change, none of 
> the
> publications on the radios that this thread has discussed were classified.
>
> In a message dated 9/23/2007 9:38:22 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> jfor at quik.com
> writes:
>> jeremy-ca wrote:
>>
>> >What you are looking at in 2007 has absolutely no bearing on what was
>> >available to the ham in 1947. These days it is all available as 
>> >reprints,
>> >CD's or downloads.