[Milsurplus] Fw: ARC 3 / T 67 questions

[C.Whitaker]

de WB2CPN
Good thoughts, Jim, here are some more.
The ARC-27's I had hands on in GCA's, (CPN-4's and
MPN-11 mostly), had forced air cooling from the refrigeration
system.  There was a little air deflector placed where the air
blower motor and fan were, and the cold air came in from under
the mounting.  (We had more failures of the air conditioning system
than all the rest of the GCA.).  I did that in control towers when
I could scrounge that little deflector.  So the radio ran cooler.
ARC-27's were not reliable, but they changed in and out easily
if the Radio Shop had one.  Lot of equipment like that had the
organization name painted on it.   On the front as well as on the
cover.  "Don't get mine mixed up with that junk you know won't
work properly."  Or, "What the Hell you mean you can't find it?"
Whether you or the radio shop maintained them depended on
what kind of "Joint Tenancy Agreement" you had with the host
base.  Jim, I started as 778, ended up some years later as 30490.
Whole time in ACS, AACS, AFCS, AFCC.  
73  Clete