[Milsurplus] ARR-41 for sale

[Larry Godek]

In the late 80's i was accessing one of the scrap yards east of Tucson around D-M.  In it besides thousands of instruments and manuals for about every airplane that existed was a stack of the R-648/ARR-41 receivers.  Some had been thrown off the airplane and others were in pretty good shape.  I bought several dozen of them for $75 ea. They had the 24V power supply and i think a couple may have had the mounts as well.  Not many at any rate.

When i resold them i was lucky to get $125 for each which wasn't much of a profit considering all the work and travel i did to get them.  Personally other than maybe than looks,  they were a terrible receiver.  On the lower frequency i don't think there was much if any RF gain.  Why they are such a hot item, i have no clue and can't believe people are paying such big dollars for them. I think the dynamotor units are a weak point but they did have as a plus, numerous Collins mechanical filters on the back side.  Maybe that is part of the draw.

I may still ahve a couple of the power connectors for it.

Larry
W0OGH

--- On Fri, 6/25/10, RICHARD SOLOMON <w1ksz at q.com> wrote:

From: RICHARD SOLOMON <w1ksz at q.com>
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] ARR-41 for sale
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Date: Friday, June 25, 2010, 8:47 AM


Regardless what some folks think, e-Bay is pure Supply-Demand Economics 
in action. That being said, the last few ARR-41's (and that is a sample of 4), 
have sold for between $890 and $1,200. One with a BIN of $700 did not sell.
That was an anomoly since the next one listed sold for $898.

I am told that there was a Gov't issue AC supply made for these. I have only 
seen a picture of it and have not had one in my possession.

I think $200 - 400 is way underpriced and the estate could get much more 
for this radio.

73, Dick, W1KSZ  

> From: RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu
> To: SpinningTrue at aol.com; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net; mrca at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:29:39 -0400
> Subject: [Milsurplus] ARR-41 for sale
> 
> I have been contacted by an individual located in Chicago who has an ARR-41 along with manual for sale. The receiver is from an estate and I have no idea as to its working condition. He has sent me several picture of the receiver and it has the case, original connectors and appears to have no holes or modifications on the outside. There is no shock mount. It is however missing the data plate. He will open it and see if it has the dynamotor or an AC power supply but I do not know myself.
> I have told him that these radios sell for between $200 to $400 in this condition and have been known to sell for more on EBay. The seller of the receiver can be reached directly at: spinningtrue at aol.com<mailto:spinningtrue at aol.com>  Understand that I have nothing to do with this receiver and other then referring him to this list am no way involved but looking at the stupid amounts that they have been selling for EBay this may be a good opportunity for one of the list members to pick up this receiver. Please contact the seller directly.
> Ray Fantini KA3EKH
> 
> 
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