[Milsurplus] Re: [ARC5] Odd ART-13

[Hue Miller]

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From: "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at earthlink.net>

> I've seen numbers somewhere indicating that even a lowly SCR-274-N receiver
> with dynamotor cost the government about $400.  If so, then it took the
> equivalent of $4000 of today's dollars to buy one.  

Mike, i don't think that one's right. I have seen quotes on the Navy's RBM receiver,
for example,and it was $1000.  Maybe that's why R E Goodheart Co. called it "the
Navy's Pride", altho it was not that good a receiver, functionally, but very cute and
clean construction. Also, didn't the RBB/ RBC start at $1500 and go up to $2500 ?
Did i also see a quote that the BC-348 cost Sam $300 ?  But, no way a Command Set
receiver cost $400. Maybe a set.
This kinda puts a different perspective on the BC-348 in the immediate postwar years 
for $125, $89, then down to $59 or so. And some unusable thing like the ARR-2, which
in terms of hobby dollars in the late 1940s was no bargain!
-Hue Miller