[Milsurplus] ARC-33

[Francesco Ledda]

In the late 70s, a bunch of ARC-33 control heads were released on the
surplus market in Germany. These had German Air Force tags.  I was able to
get hold of one; the strange thing was that this control head had a Collins
tag and MCN numbers all over the place.    Another interesting thing about
this control head is the similarity between its memory drum with the Collins
ARC-52 memory drum. Having been a designer for Collins myself, I know about
their "non invented here" syndrome and their interest of rehash existing
designs. I have hard time believing that Collins copied the memory drum from
Bendix.  So my questions is : did Collins design the ARC-33 control head?

Regards,

Francesco Ledda

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[mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Scott Johnson
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 8:24 PM
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net; armyradios at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Milsurplus] ARC-33


Anyone out there familiar with what has to be the biggest beast of an
airborne UHF transceiver ever?  I could really use a T.O., and a back brace.
This is a Bendix unit that looks like it predates the ARC-27, is 50% wider,
50% heavier, and still puts out a measly 8-10 watts from 225.0-399.9 kkCs. I
would be it rode on early Buffs.   Real high on my cool meter,however, the
smallest module weighs more than an entire ARC-164.
Help!
73,

Scott
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