[Milsurplus] ARR-15 receiver parts wanted

WF2U wf2u at ws19ops.com
Wed May 2 21:39:46 EDT 2018


I faked an MT-461 after I found a mount for some avionics item on eBay. The width of the mount fit the ARR-15, but it was too short. A local ham friend who was an aircraft mainenance chief before he retired, and built his own aircraft, in his fully equipped workshop, modified the mount by adding the correct profile aluminum angle in the middle of the mount. This extended the mount to the correct length, and the extension is not even noticeable. I have 2 correct connectors (one for the ARR-15, the other is for the ARC-2A), so I'll mount it on an aluminum flange attached to the mount. 
I'm now in search of a mount of the right width for the ARC-2A, which we'll extend the same way.
A mount for my Collins 618T-2 transceiver was also procured, converted the same way from a correct width but short avionics mount.

73, Meir WF2U
Landrum, SC

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On May 2, 2018, 8:36 PM, at 8:36 PM, Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net> wrote:
>The mounts for the AN/ARC-2 and the AN/ARR-15 are great rarities.  Each
>includes a 24-pin connector and connection box as part of the mount.
>
>The RT-91/ARC-2 or RT-298/ARC-2A may use:
>MT-421/AR or MT-421A/AR
>
>The R-105/ARR-15 or R-105A/ARR-15 may use:
>MT-461/ARR-15 or MT-461A/ARR-15
>
>Good luck finding them.  I have never seen an MT-461*/ARR-15 on ebay. 
>(But then, I haven't paid mucb attention to ebay in almost ten years.) 
>Through a different source 20 years ago, I obtained a complete wired
>AN/ARR-15 set with mount and control box.  That is the only
>MT-461*/ARR-15 that I have seen since I got my first R-105/ARR-15 from
>USNAVMARCORMARS in 1969.
>
>I have seen a couple of MT-421* mounts on ebay in the past 20 years. 
>One sold (to me) for a very low final bid.  There is little doubt that
>the lack of bidder interest was because the MT-421A/AR nomenclature did
>not obviously and explicitly tie it to the AN/ARC-2*.
>
>The USN AN/ARC-25 is the combo of the AN/ARR-15 receiver and the
>AN/ART-13 transmitter, aimilar in concept to the USAAF AN/ARC-8 combo
>of the AN/ARR-11 (BC-348-*) and the AN/ART-13A.  It is the predecessor
>to the USN AN/ARC-38.  By far, the single most difficult part of the
>AN/ARC-25 to obtain today is the MT-461/ARR-15.
>
>Good luck to anyone on this quest!  I hope you are young.  :-)
>
>Mike / KK5F
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