[Milsurplus] AN/ARC-8(?) (ART-13B + ARR-15)

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In a message dated 3/14/02 7:19:56 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
mmorrow@companet.net writes:

>  The only in-service USAF
 aircraft I ever saw at Blytheville AFB that had an AN/ART-13 still had a
 BC-348 (in 1971!).

-Was this still being used, or just left in place? I cannot imagine the USAF
using either HF AM or cw at that date.
 
>The AN/ARR-15 does seem to be the receiver of choice to go with a
 post-WWII AN/ART-13.  The USN had no receiver comparable to the BC-348
 in WWII.  I guess they must have used their ATC and AN/ART-13 sets with
 the ARB and AN/ARC-5 receivers.  At least one AN/ARC-5 manual I have
 shows both of those arrangements.

I was told by  Chet Wisner, who  flew Atlantic patrols in a PBY WW2,
that from 1943 the RAX's were  removed and replaced with BC-348.
(Yes.)  
However, we know not all were changed out, because some  PBY
apparently kept the RU-GO setup. Pete Peterson flew  as radio
op in some of these post war, on delivery flights to the  Philippines.
The A/C were being given to the  Philippine AF.
Also, Jack Strayer told me he saw RAX + GO-9  setup in  some
PBYs - don't recall whether this was southern CA or around Seattle-
i think he said  S&R PBYs out of  Seattle, this up into the  1960s
at least. When i asked why, he said the HF gear simply was not 
used anymore, and it was just left in.
 
 >I wonder what receiver the USAF used with the O-17/ART-13 LF transmitter
 channel, or the USN used with the O-16/ART-13 LF channel, if they were
 using the AN/ARR-15 with the T-47/ART-13.  Maybe an R-23/ARC-5, or even
 an AN/ARN-6 that was being used in a communications role???
 
-Please consider the possiblity, which i have harped on, over and over,  that
the LF/MF  frequencies were NOT used for 2-way communication. I think i 
have posted enuff examples to establish this pretty well - maybe i did post
them only to MRC email group ( Dennis Starks' group.) I may be so bold
as to contend the ARC-5 MF transmitters served exactly this same purpose.
(Altho the power output seems a bit on the low side for  DF signals.)
Regards- Hue Miller