[Milsurplus] ARC-1 Control Head Wanted

[Robert Downs]

I guess that Mike was trying to be polite.  I’ve mostly over the past 6 or 7 decades considered it carelessness, laziness, misguided attempts at trying to appear “cool”, or in a few  cases just downright abject stupidity.  Present company all excepted of course!

 

Robert Downs

 

From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of John P. Caldwell
Sent: Friday, August 9, 2019 13:47
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] ARC-1 Control Head Wanted

 

“hobbyist carelessness”, wow, I’ll have to try and use that in a sentence in the near future.  Yes, I know you sent me the link w/ the (3) control heads for the ARC-1, in fact you sent it (3) times, thanks.  

 

John WD8INC

 

From: Mike Morrow [mailto:kk5f at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2019 2:29 PM
To: John P. Caldwell <jcaldwell at rbcos.com>
Cc: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] ARC-1 Control Head Wanted

 

There is one and ONLY one J.A.N. AN/ARC-12 system, with the RT-58/ARC-12 as its principal component.

 

There has never been an AN/ARC-12 system made by Aircraft Radio Corporation.  They built a series of sets known under **commercial** (not military JAN) nomenclature as the Aircraft Radio Corporation Type 12, or A.R.C. Type 12.  Hobbyists, not given to appreciating such details, often made the gross error of calling the A.R.C. Type 12 the AN/ARC-12.  I guess a century from now such hobbyist carelessness will still be ongoing.  :-)

 

The UHF-AM set made from JAN-nomenclatured A.R.C. Type 12 units is the AN/ARC-60.  it has no relationship to the AN/ARC-12.

 

Mike / KK5F

 

(PS: I was the one who sent you the post on the MRCA list three days ago with the nomenclature and descriptions of the three AN/ARC-1 and -12 control units.)

 

-----Original Message----- 
From: "John P. Caldwell" 
Sent: Aug 9, 2019 9:54 AM 
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net 
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] ARC-1 Control Head Wanted 



Yes Mike, I’m aware many of the ARC-1’s were replaced by RT-58/ARC-12s so that impacts finding control heads.  It should be noted this is not the same as the AN/ARC-12 built by Aircraft Radio Corp which uses coffee grinder style control heads.

 

John WD8INC

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