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

[Mike]

mmorrow@companet.net wrote:

> >  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!).

Kargokult@aol.com wrote:

>  Was this still being used, or just left in place? I cannot imagine
>  the USAF using either HF AM or cw at that date.

Nor could I at the time!  I was interested in WWII aircraft sets even
back than, so I asked the pilots if they used it.  They said they didn't
know anything about it.  They just used the AN/ARC-27.

All the main aircraft at BAFB (KC-135 and B-52) used the AN/ARC-58 at
that time for HF comms.

> 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.

That would have been a great decision.  The BC-348 had to be less
expensive than a rack of RAX units, with a lighter and simpler
installation and likely better performance to boot.

> Please consider the possiblity ... that the LF/MF  frequencies were
> NOT used for 2-way communication.

No argument from me!  I don't know enough to start!

> I ... have posted enuff examples to MRC email group ...

Unfortunately, I've never figured out exactly how one joins MRCG. 
Dennis sent me some email on it, but there was something about writing
some sort of letter that I didn't really understand.

Mike / KK5F