[Milsurplus] R-26M/ARC-5 autotuned receiver

[David Stinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hue Miller" <kargo_cult at msn.com>
>..... The one R-26M i owned (regrets) did have
> a professionally, factory labeled nameplate. 

The unit I sent Mike did also have a factory "M" name plate.

> .....The field trials in the last week of WW2 indicate this combo
>  never actually saw action.
> So there was a somewhat shortened span of time this receiver 
> would have been used,....

It 's important to keep in mind that, just because 
a "new," "official" set came out, 
that did not mean that older sets were always removed and replaced.
In fact, unless the older set proved unsatisfactory in some
major way (and it took a lot of proving), these sets would 
continue in service in those aircraft and the "new" stuff went
into "new" aircraft.  This is demonstrated by the large number of
U.S. and global aircraft in which things like ARC-8 and ARC-5
continued to operate into the 1970s and 1980s.
The combination might have been in service a long time,
just not in WWII service or in large numbers of aircraft.  
There have been lots of opportunities for it to see action since then.
I wouldn't be surprised if today,
at some jungle strip in Equador,
a DC-3 is parked while a tech repairs 
its ART-13 for the umpteenth time.

73 Dave S.