[Milsurplus] Long-lived (on active duty) US Radio Sets

[C.Whitaker]

de WB2C{N
I encountered the ARC-27 at Dover AFB in late 1959.
We had already put UHF in the transmitter and receiver
buildings which were nearby.
It was funny to see the Base Ops people going around
the parking ramps and taxi ways in a C-45, looking for
dead spots that everyone knew that a UHF frequency
would definitely have.
Not long after that I was installing CRD-6's in Alaska.
The thing was to run the ARC-27 cool.  In GCA and
other fixed facilities there was an external blower, and
an air deflector that fit on the front in place of a fan.
EOT.
73  Clete
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On 2/15/2013 8:16 PM, jmfranke wrote:
> We used the ARC-27/55s in E1-B tracers (Willy Fudds or Stoof with a 
> roof in the late 1970s). They were very reliable.
>
> John WA4WDL last aircrew man in the E1-B!
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "John Vendely" <jvendely at cfl.rr.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 7:45 PM
> To: <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Long-lived (on active duty) US Radio Sets
>
>> On 2/15/2013 2:23 PM, Mike Morrow wrote:
>>>
>>> The AN/ARC-27/55 is one of the most important command sets in US 
>>> military history,
>>> starting at least in 1952 and maybe a little earlier.  Some were 
>>> still in service
>>> in the 1970s, after more than 25 years of service.
>> At NAS Pensacola in 1986, I saw an operational C-130 which had the 
>> ARC-27, ARN-6, and ARN-21D TACAN.  Probably one of the "last of the 
>> Mohicans"...
>>>
>>> But forget all of those.  *None* of these meet the service duration 
>>> of the AN/VRC-12
>>> series.  These FM tactical radios were first deployed around 1961, 
>>> and were finally
>>> phased out of US service in 2008.
>> In 1992, there were still two U.S. manufacturers producing modest 
>> quantities of VRC-12 family radios (including the PRC-77). Incredible...
>>
>> John K9WT
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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