[Milsurplus] AN/ARC-3

[Jack Antonio]

Which style?

There were two types of ARC-3 mounts, the ones that
looked like the ARC-5 types, and a later platform type
(MT-xxx-C).

Mine has the platform types of mount.

Jack


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Donzelli" <aw288 at osfn.org>
To: "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at earthlink.net>
Cc: "Jack Antonio" <scr287 at sbcglobal.net>; "Milsurplus"
<milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 7:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] AN/ARC-3


> > 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
>