[Milsurplus] ARC-27/55 radios

[Ed Zeranski]

>> They certainly deserve their place in
>> history, tens of thousands of them were produced and carried the US
through
>> the Cold War.
>
>75,000 AN/ARC-27s, to be more precise.

In the late '60s early '70s( school years) I worked 2nd shift doing depot
level ( class'B') overhalls on ARC-27s for two (2)years....thousands of the
F'krs went through our handson an Airforce contract. The oldest one we did
was serial BRF-001 from 1948....we called it Noah's ARC ~8^)