[Milsurplus] ARC-5 production data

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

John,

Are you using "ARC-5" generically to mean all models?  If so, then the 
approximate order of increasing production quantities is RAV, RAT, ATA/ARA, AN/ARC-5 
and SCR-274-N.  Except that T-15, -16 and -17/ARC-5, a few AN/ARC-5 control 
and junction boxes, some of the early VHF stuff and the AN/ARC-5X components 
would belong at or near the left end of the list.  I've had a few of the 
DY-1/ARR-2X dynamotors, for example, but I've never seen an R-148/ARC-5X (14 volt 
R-23).

In a message dated 10/28/2004 9:52:35 PM Central Daylight Time, jfor at quik.com 
writes: 
> In trying to make some sense of my pile of ARC-5 stuff (and add and remove 
> items
> to make it coherent) I'm looking for some information on how many units of 
> each
> type were produced.
> 
> Specifically, I'd like to know roughly how many of each of the common Txs 
> and
> Rxs were produced for the Army and for the Navy. I'm not that interested in 
> the
> super rare items, but just the sets that would have been used in a run of 
> the
> mill plane produced during the war.
> 
> Does anyone believe the Navy stuff is more collectible than the army sets?
> 

Robert Downs - Houston
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