[Milsurplus] AN/ARC-3

[William Donzelli]

> The three shock mounts and the control box seem to the the hardest items to
> find.

I think Fair has loads of shockmounts - premove, anyway.

> The later C-404A/A panel-style control seems to show up more often than the
> original boxes.  I like it better than the original design AN/ARC-3 controls
> because it has a rotary (vs. pushbutton) channel selector, on-off toggle
> switch, tone button, *and* the volume control all on one small back-lit
> panel, but no audio jacks, of course.

I have these.

> I think the AN/ARC-3 likely had close to 30 years in-service time in some
> corners of the USAAF/USAF, especially when one considers the AN/ARC-36
> and -49 variants.

I know these exist, but I have never seen one. Anyone know how many were
made?

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org