[Milsurplus] Odd AN/ARC-27 box

[Marty R's GI-stuff haunt]

Well this distilled down to the ARC-18...

} > I may have misunderstood your question, but the voice relay concept 
} > originated late in the war in the Pacific theater, prompted by the need 
} > to relay VHF voice comms back to the carrier CIC from strike aircraft 
} > and others beyond line of sight range.
} 
} I had not thought of the line-of-sight problem. That makes sense.

       --Comes now the 'dead horse' department--

A controversy erupted here a half-year back when a bud sed 

  "as a B17 radio op, there were no more in-flight radio jobs in 4 & 5/45 
   since by then even '187 use had stopped thanks to 'repeaters.'  And
   long before he arrived [10/44] the '274 had given way to the
   '522 for command use"

The repeaters were "war wearies" orbiting over channel with paired '522s 
set to that duty.  Say one 522 had it's antenna on tail & ran @ 110 mhz.

Other '522 had antenna under nose & ran at, say, 140.  Output of
rear '522 rx cabled to input of front '522 tx, etc.

Wm D you supported this with a description of the 'sanctioned' ARC-18
that used ARC-1s.

But I bet 1st such 'system' cobbled outa '522s & ran as that man one
Bill Johnson described.  Bill's still real sharp & tells of machine-gun
attempts on ME262s & the 'goblin' rocket plane.

And some fella here allowed a B24 pilot had told him his last few missions
were orbiting above the channel in just such a ship.

Now Dave Simpson will say not no, but hell no.  Y'all watch

There is an argument that max. range might be 200 mi.* if 'repeater' at 
20,000 feet.  I'll at least accept that but I trust B. J. a lot.

And perhaps 200 mi. is the max. distance from which the 'liasson' '187 
(BC375) was ever expected anyway.

  Marty