[MRCA] What is this? SCR-522

[Tim]

John WB6AZP did a beautiful restoration of an SCR-522 and demo'd it at an
MRCG event in 2014.  It sounded great on 2 meters AM, both TX and RX on a
net with an ARC-3 and A.R.C. Type 12.  It was then installed behind the
armor plate in the P-51D "Sierra Sue II", considered to be the most
accurately restored Mustang at the time.  John also worked on the aircraft
restoration.  It's flying....See pix:
https://www.n6cc.com/wp-content/uploads/P5010270.jpg
https://www.n6cc.com/wp-content/uploads/14-09-27SS2-Event-33-768x519.jpg

As just one restoration detail John told us that they exactly duplicated
the color and font style of the "Alcoa" aluminum alloy stampings on the
INSIDE of the fuselage and wing panels - never to then be seen by anyone!
All the A/C wiring was provided new by the original wire manufacturer to
the original AAF specifications...

Tim (the hacker)
N6CC

On Sat, Dec 7, 2024 at 10:44 AM Ray Fantini via MRCA <mrca at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> Don’t sell that radio short! The SCR-522 is a radio with huge limitations,
> insensitive, the auto channel mechanism was larger than the radio and all
> the difficulties trying to get the multi overtone crystal to work for the
> front end. But all that aside it was king in the ETO and just about
> everywhere by the end of the war being VHF AM was where the world was
> going. I prefer American hardware like the ARC-1 or better yet the ARC-3
> that came after, the ARC-3 stayed in service well into the sixties but the
> cantankerous old SCR-522 with all its problems set the standard for
> everything that came after.
>
> Hard to Imagin anyone would attempt to do something like a P-51 for a
> museum without that radio.
>
> Ray F/KA3EKH
>
>
>
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