[Milsurplus] 12V Dynomotor

[Rich MC Clung]

I was stationed in Germany 1966-69 and while there I collected several German nomenclatured ARC-5 pieces. I picked up a XMTR, RCVR and MD units that had new dial scales made from brass and calibrated to cover the full 160M band. There was a dual XMTR mount with a RCVR mount modified to fit in one side of the XMTR mount. They were painted the German olive green color similar to the one on e-bay and were 12VDC.  I picked it up at a German neighborhood hock shop for 20 Marks which was $5.00 at that time.  I took it into my shop at the Kaserne we were stationed and checked it over before aplying power to it.  The RCVR worked very well and I could RCV  BCB stations on the top of the BCB. The XMTR worked ok but I needed to replace the finals. I stayed late one night after I got it all checked out and hooked it up to the inverted-L antenna we had coming into our shop. I worked several stations and took it home the next day and used it for 1 year on 160
 untill I was transferred back to the States and I gave it to a local German Ham who I was friends with.  I have several German radios that I now wish I had kept.  All from German hock shops for very little cost.  Those days are gone forever.  Anyway, I discovered that after the War the Germans were using a lot of US radios and most were coverted to operate on 12VDC if they didn't and eventually began to use 24VDC like the reat of the military units from the US, UK and France. yda,yda,yda,ya........
 
So to give the short version 12VDC was a standard for pot-War German Military Communications equipment. And they used the ARC-5 type equipment for ground comms as well as aviation.
 
RICH  EX-DL4MC
WA6KNW