[Milsurplus] ARC-5 and the ARRL

[Ray Fantini]

April issue of QST, page 80 bottom left corner And on the ARRL web page promoting Field Day is a retro looking graphic promoting Field Day 2013 and close examination of the graphic will reveal a Command set or ARC-5 style transmitter and receiver. Another example of how a radio that went nowhere in military or civil aviation after the war went on to serve and find extensive use and modification  in the Ham world, so much so that today when developing a graphic for showing “old time” ham radio it makes the cut  where commercial Ham products of that generation did not. The greatest significance and contribution of the ARC-5/SCR-274 family of radios may be in the use, modification and long lived realm of Ham radio, way beyond there service record in WW2
This is a statement of my opinion, and not intended to persuade or influence others but I am posting this in my never ending battle to justify the legitimacy of preserving and in some case building the Ham modified military  radio as being just as significant as the preserved copies of the radios that were in military service.
 
Ray F