[MRCA] "Cold War " rellics, response

[mr3hi8st8or5y at cox.net]

Hi Jeep,
 Charlie, KF2HJ, explained that he made the first pole to pole single sideband contact. He was aboard a B-47 above the North pole and talked to a KC-135 above the South pole.
My ART-13 is still with Robert in TX. 
73,
Roger in Wichita
---- "D. Platt" <jeepp at comcast.net> wrote: 
> Regarding the 18S-4 and its variants, that set came out in the 50's to 
> try and replace older sets like the ART-13.  The transmitter is all but 
> a re-designed ART-13, sans autotune and the VFO.   Reading the  RTCA 
> meeting notes from the early 50's and the subsequent committee reports,  
> they (RTCA) decided that HF needed better stability, closer channel 
> spacing, etc.  Collins came out with the 18S-* radio sets to do the 
> job.  I have the USAF school manual and all the Collins books.  Talking 
> to old hands who had to maintain the 18S, they all hated it as it was so 
> time consuming to change frequencies and get it tuned up.  One had to 
> have the complete box of plug-in coil sets, the crystals, and the 
> antenna tuner which was, in fact, the better part of the output network 
> of the transmitter.   I have two complete ARC-8s up and running, one of 
> ART-13s was actually NIB.  I've considered bargaining one of the ARC-8s 
> for an operational ARC-2A but don't know if its really worth it, in the end?
> 
> In the 50's Gen.s LeMay and White were dealing with Collins to move the 
> USAF to SSB.  Maybe some of you recall when they installed a 
> ground-based Collins SSB rig in a C-54 and flew it around a good bit of 
> the world doing tests.  They were on the ham bands, too.  SAC was the 
> first to convert, then the rest of the AF and the military, in general.  
> It took a while as the FAA
> 
> Breck, K4CHE got the last one I had.
> 
> Jeep - K3HVG
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