[Hallicrafters] Re: Hallicrafters airborne gear

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Thanks for the input Mike:
     Now that you mention it, I believe I have either an R-44 or R-45 stuffed in a corner of the garage.  I'll go out and dig it out of the cobwebs.
Later
Bill Harris w7kxb
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Mike Everette <radiocompass at yahoo.com>
> > Wonder if
> > Hallicrafters produced any airborn gear for that
> > era? (gotta keep this subject on Hallicrafters gear,
> > you know)
> 
> R-44/ARR-5
> R-45/ARR-7
> 
> were adapted from the S-27 (or 36?) and SX-28.
> 
> Actually the ARR-7s were found in quantity aboard B-36
> bombers and RB-36 recon-version aircraft.  If we can
> believe the surplus gear ads in old ham magazines
> (them musta been the days!), the ARR-7 was not
> available in quantity till the early 60s,
> coincidentally (?) not long after the B-36 fleet was
> retired.  A search of ads in old 73 and CQ mags
> indicates that the only dealer that may have had them
> seems to have been R.E. Goodheart in California, who
> sold them at rather high prices for that time, as
> surplus gear went.
> 
> I think I have also seen these radios in photographs
> of the ECM versions of the AD or A-1 Skyraider.
> 
> Both the B-36 and Skyraider are cold-war birds.
> 
> It would be interesting to know what other mil gear,
> besides the obvious BC-610, was built by
> Hallicrafters.  Could some Halli gear have gone to the
> moon with the Apollo missions?
> 
> 73
> 
> Mike
> WA4DLF
> 
> 
> 
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