[Milsurplus] CW-184/CRT-3 Antenna Question

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Well, maybe.  But consider that it's probably less error prone to speak of an 
O-215/ARC-38 than it would be to have to say Stablized Master Oscillator 
sub-assembly that was used in RT-311/ARC-38 from serial number nnnn+0 through 
serial number nnnn+mmmm ordered on Contract NXSr-ppppp.

And consider the recent thread here that mentioned un-numbered canvas covers 
for several sets that some people would be happy to find.  Except that with no 
identifying marks, unless they are found with the unit they belong to, 
they're difficult to impossible to ID, expecially for someone who can barely spell 
radio who's cleaning out his uncle's garage after the uncle died.  The CW-4 and 
CW-5 made earlier (for ATA/ARA and etc.) have no markings on them.  I've got 
boxes full of the small one but only know it because I know where they came 
from and I recognized them when I opened the first box, having seen the on racks 
before.  Otherwise, they just look like pill or condiment bottle covers (to 
the nephew).

So let's not look a gift horse in the mouth, regardless of whose tax dollars 
paid for it.  :-)

In a message dated 9/26/2006 12:59:56 PM Central Daylight Time, 
kk5f at earthlink.net writes: 
> >CW is the nomenclature for covers, bags and rolls.
> 
> Sometimes this JAN nomenclature was even applied to the covers for unused 
> plugs on equipment.  The covers for unused small and medium diameter connectors 
> of the AN/ARC-5 were, IIRC, the CW-4/ARC-5 and the CW-5/ARC-5.  (This use of 
> CW is not to be confused with USN nomenclature like CW-49507, where the CW 
> means the item was made by Western Electric.)
> 
> I've always thought that this was carrying the JAN-system just a little to 
> far into micro-detail, worse even than the assignment of JAN numbers to 
> individual sub-assemblies of a unit, such as assigning O-215/ARC-38 to the SMO 
> sub-assembly of the RT-311/ARC-38.
> 
> 

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