[Milsurplus] Photo of aircraft radio installation

[Skywarrior]

Hi All,
It sure looks like an early Lockheed P-2E.  I have spent much time in the P-2H and the make up looks identical with the exception of the radio equipment in the racks.

Bruce 

--- On Mon, 11/23/09, Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Photo of aircraft radio installation
> To: "milsurplus" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Monday, November 23, 2009, 3:32 PM
> Jack wrote:
> 
> >photo shows an AN/ARC-8 installation.  The item
> number is 380180973354.
> >
> >My question is, does anyone recognize what kind of
> aircraft this is?
> 
> I can't help with aircraft type.  
> 
> I know that you know, but I'll say anyway that the
> transmitter appears to
> be a T-47A/ART-13 with an O-16/ART-13 LF/MF oscillator and
> a CU-25/ART-13
> external LF/MF tank coil.  I'd usually expect the O-17
> (rather than the
> O-16) to be found in an AN/ARC-8 installation.  The
> receiver appears to be
> a BC-348-R (AN/ARR-11).
> 
> I've never seen placards on the receiver tube socket access
> cover like
> those shown.  The one on the right looks similar to
> placards that are
> sometimes found in Canadian installations.
> 
> I'll bet there's an AN/ARC-3 onboard too.  A post-WWII
> aircraft was pretty
> well equiped with an AN/ARC-3 and -8 onboard (except for
> lack of a guard
> channel on the AN/ARC-3).
> 
> 
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