[Milsurplus] BC-375

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Ed,

The AN/ARC-5 (whose time had really passed before it ever went into service) 
was a later development of the earlier A.R.C. set whose design life started at 
about the same time as that of the BC-191 (the BC-375 was a later development 
of the BC-191).  But the original A.R.C. design was for a low power (12-15 
watt output) set for short range plane to plane communication to replace the 
earlier SCR-183/283 and GF/RU series (which A.R.C. also built). The BC-191 and 
later BC-375 were long range liasion sets comparable to the GO, GP, ATC and ATD. 
 Just like the heavy Navy shipboard 24/7 transmitters like the TBL, TBK, TBS, 
etc., had a different design requirement from the intermittent duty short 
range sets like the TBY, TCS and MBF.  When you compare apples and avocados 
you're apt to get a strange taste.

In a message dated 8/13/2004 11:10:12 PM Central Daylight Time, 
ezeran at concentric.net writes: 
> I totally agree that the BC-375 was a well built radio. I look at the
> little ARC-5 radios and then at the BC-375 and it's a bit of a shock to
> realize they both operated in the same airplanes. Obviously they were
> used differently, but there is a major size difference.
> 
>     Wasn't the '375 an existing an existing design so could be used 'off the
> shelf' and the ARC-5 a later design effort?
> 

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