[Milsurplus] Re: [ARC5] VHF AN/ARC-5 more small details

[William Donzelli]

> Western Electric made the sets,
> Eastman Kodak made the control boxes.

My control boxes (receive and transmit) are both WE made.

And as long as we are talking AN/ARC-5...

I have been going thru an old SIG 5 (1945 edition), as any milgeek would, 
and came across two Command Set pieces I have never heard about* - 
MX-18/ARC-5 and ID-27/ARC-5. The former is apparently a box with three of 
the large connectors, used so two transmitter racks could be used with 
one set/ the latter is more of a mystery - the description says it is for 
calibration of the 3-6 MHz "turntable" (SIC) control boxes.

Ay insight on these fabled pieces?

*The wartime edition is a real scream - many of the sets both long 
obsolete or just plain odd are cataloged, including many of the 
unsucessfull tries. 

William Donzelli
aw288@osfn.org