[Milsurplus] Re: [ARC5] SCR-183/283 junction boxes

[David Stinson]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net>

>...It would be interesting to have as detailed a research
> into SCR-183 and -283 components as there has been
>for ARA/ATA, SCR-274-N, and AN/ARC-5 components...

Give me time ;-).  I'm coming to find that the history of 
the SCR-183/283 (which is inextricably interwoven 
with that of the GF/RU) 
is a lot more complicated than that of the "ATA/ARA-274N-ARC5."
For one thing, they were in service at least as long
as the later sets- probably longer, but I can't document just yet.

>I've never really warmed up to the SCR-183/283.  
>I am quite fond of the USN's visually similar RU/GF sets. 
That's a shame, because they are direct "kith and kin."
The drawings for the earlier sets are almost mirror images.
One was the direct "knock-off" of 
the other in their early versions, though which one is not
quite yet settled.  The Navy got to improve their set, because
they had sterner requirements and because
they got the lion's share of the money until October of 1940;
the Army had to get by on the crumbs until then.
If it hadn't been for McAurther threatening to quit as
Roosevelt's early Chief of Staff, I'd bet the Air Corps
would have gone up to Pearl Harbor with the SCR-134!
73 Dave S.

And working a timeline for these is 
more challenging than the later sets.  It's' turning 
into quite a chore.