[Milsurplus] ARC 3 / T 67 questions

[howard holden]

Can't speak for the ARC-3, but the ARC-4 and SCR-522 were also used on board submarines doing "dumbo" rescue duty in WW2. We've seen some of the fitting-out records for the USS Ling indicating the SCR-522, and there appears to be a spot for it in the radio room, which is where also the VHF antennas terminate. Also the Pampanito site lists the ARC-4 and SCR for same. We have both radios on board at the Ling.

I personally have an ARC-3, but it is in pretty bad shape. 

Howie WB2AWQ
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike Morrow<mailto:kk5f at earthlink.net> 
  To: Greg Mijal<mailto:bluebirdtele at embarqmail.com> ; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net<mailto:milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> 
  Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 4:22 PM
  Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] ARC 3 / T 67 questions


  Greg wrote:

  >Can anyone tell me what planes used the ARC 3 - T 67 
  >transmitter?  Also, what is the frequency range?

  The USAAF AN/ARC-3, just like the SCR-522-A that it replaced,
  the USN VHF AN/ARC-5, and the USN AN/ARC-1 were all 100 to 156
  MHZ, as has been pointed out already.

  The 8-channel AN/ARC-3 was a USAAF/USAF set that was used in
  some form or another for a couple of decades after WWII.  There
  was a 16-channel version called the AN/ARC-36, and a 48-channel
  version called the AN/ARC-49.

  It was used on practically every type of USAF aircraft very late
  WWII through to the late 1950s, and some places later.  It was
  **THE** USAF VHF-AM command set until the AN/ARC-73 came into
  service in the early 1960s.

  About the only place it would be wrong to see an AN/ARC-3/36/49
  set would be in a USN aircraft.

  Mike / KK5F
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