[Milsurplus] SCR-240 oddness

[Todd Bigelow - PS]

William Donzelli wrote:

> After many years of searching, I finally received a book on the SCR-240
> (and SCR-261, plus the maintenance sets). This set was the failed Command
> Set, built by Westinghouse. If it had not been such a dog (apparently),
> the SCR-274N would have remained just a dream, and the ARC-5 family would
> have been just a Navy set.

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> Maintenance must have been horrible. Any radio described with "layers",
> as this one is in the manual, must be bad news. Much like the Navy's ATB,
> Westinghouse overengineered the hell out these sets. From notes in the
> manual it looks like several hundred were built. One of my dynamotors is
> from a second order from 1943 (the original is from 1938), so one has to
> wonder if some of these sets stayed in service thru the war.

Just your description makes it clear to me (with the ARC-5 to compare, of
course) why it wouldn't be the choice. As cramped and annoying as some of the
components can be to get to in the ARC-5/SCR-274N gear, it sounds like a dream
to maintain next to that. Not to mention the personality of a dial on the
face.

de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ