[Milsurplus] ARC-5 production data

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John,

Someone else will probably jump in with an exception (that they can't prove 
someone else didn't strip) but I'll stick my neck out and say that all AN/ARC-5 
components were originally painted black wrinkle, as were all of the Navy 
sets and the earlier SCR-274-N.  The plain aluminum finish units are all 
SCR-274-N.

You cannot use the SCR-274-N transmitter racks with the AN/ARC-5 transmitters 
anyway (regardless of their color).  Wrong connector.  Nor can you use the 
MD-7/ARC-5 modulator with the other two sets nor vice versa.  So far as I can 
recall, the RAV, RAT, ATA/ARA and SCR-274-N components will all interchange 
regardless of color.

In a message dated 10/29/2004 12:19:15 AM Central Daylight Time, 
jfor at quik.com writes: 
> >OK.  Then in that case, I'd consider the rest of your collection.  The
> >SCR-274-N was an Army Air Force set.  The AN/ARC-5, although a Joint set 
> and used by
> >USAF after the War, was primarily procurred by the Navy.  It developed from 
> a
> >follow-on to the ATA/ARA.  So I would say that it would be more at home 
> with
> >an AN/ART-13 and ARB than with a BC-375 and BC-348.  In fact, one of the
> >system diagrams in the AN/ARC-5 maintenance manuals includes the ARB.  And 
> it fits
> >in better with the AN/ARR-2 than does the SCR-274-N.
> 
> That kinda follows my own thinking. I already have a NIB/NOS ARC-5 Modulator 
> and Dyno,
> some Rxs, control boxes and all of an NOS ART-13A, except for the TX itself. 
> Also I
> really prefer the black paint to the unpainted aluminum.
> 
> The real problem is likely to be the Tx and Rx racks.  Do you know if it was 
> common to
> use the aluminum racks with the black painted gear?
> 
> I'm thinking of trying to duplicate a system from the ARC-5 manual 
> (initially a Command
> system, perhaps growing into a Liaison system if a really nice ART-13A turns 
> up)
> 

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