[Milsurplus] Re: R-26M/ARC-5 autotuned receiver and Labeling

[Mike Hanz]

The difficulty will be in finding anyone who will take the bet... :-P

WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:

> I agree with Dave and raise his bet to a beer.  :-)
>
> In a message dated 3/5/2008 7:31:51 AM Central Standard Time, 
> arc5 at ix.netcom.com writes:
>
>> >....I would observe that the modifiers would give up the
>> >vastly improved AVC and lock tuned stability (circle S) obtained with
>> >the R-26 or R-27.  Wouldn't make much sense to do so, ...
>>
>> I'd bet a donut and coffee that the desk jockey writing the specs
>> didn't know much about the technical details; only enough to equate
>> the earlier ARA with the later AN/ARC-5.  That's common, even today.
>