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AN/ARC-5
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The AN/ARC-5 Command Radio Set is a series of radio receivers, transmitters, and accessories used to
provide two-way Morse code and AM radiotelephone communication for U.S. Navy aircraft during World
War II and the years following. It was an improvement of the Navy's ARA/ATA command set. Similar units
designated SCR-274-N were used in U.S. Army aircraft. The Army set is based on the Navy ARA/ATA, not
the later AN/ARC-5.
Contents
1 History
2 Specifications
3 Gallery
4 General Documentation
5 See also
6 References
History
The AN/ARC-5 command set was used by the US Navy from the latter part of World War II into the post-war
era. It was fitted in many different aircraft types for communication between aircraft, navigation, and
communication back to base. Units were available that covered much of the MF, HF, and VHF spectrum.
Despite the use of octal base vacuum tubes, they were compact, rugged and light weight. Many became
surplus after the war and were often converted for amateur radio use. The term "ARC-5" has come to be a
generic, though incorrect, term for all similar command set units, including those designed by the Aircraft
Radio Corporation in the late 1930s.
[1]
The antecedent of the AN/ARC-5 system was the U.S. Navy's ARA/ATA system, with initial deployment in
1940. The designations ARA and ATA are a pre-World War II Navy equipment nomenclature. The major
units of the ARA are five receivers covering 0.19 to 9.1 MHz, each unit with its own dynamotor power
supply. The major units of the ATA are five transmitters covering 2.1 to 9.1 MHz, using a common transmitter
dynamotor/screen modulator unit. Most units were made by the Aircraft Radio Corporation (USN
manufacturer's code CBY). Many units were also made by Stromberg-Carlson (USN manufacturer's code
CCT).
To equip US Army Air Corps planes, the US Army adopted in 1941 a reduced set of these radios known as
the SCR-274-N that was electrically almost identical to their ARA/ATA equivalents, except for receiver
output and modulator sidetone audio transformer output impedance. It was mechanically almost identical
except for most later units being left unpainted aluminum in contrast to the black wrinkle finish of the Navy
sets. The designation SCR-274-N is a pre-World War II Army equipment nomenclature. The Army did not
acquire a receiver covering 1.5 to 3.0 MHz, nor a transmitter covering 2.1 to 3.0 MHz. Initially, the Army did
not acquire a 3.0 to 4.0 MHz transmitter, nor a 0.52 to 1.5 MHz receiver, but need to communicate on the
common civil airfield frequency of 3.105 MHz plus the anticipated USAAF use of the AN/ARR-1 homing
adapter (see below) compelled adding these units to the SCR-274-N. Early Army units were made by Aircraft
Radio Corporation, but the vast majority was made by Western Electric, plus a few by Colonial Radio and
others.
The main units of both the Navy and the Army systems were usually installed in three-receiver racks and two-
transmitter racks. Units not in service could be stored on board the aircraft, just as one would store tuning units
of other types of radio equipment.
In late 1943, the U.S. Navy fielded an improved and more flexible set of radios known under the new Joint
Army-Navy (JAN) nomenclature of AN/ARC-5. A receiver and transmitter were added that provide four-
channel crystal-controlled VHF-AM operation, along with a rarely encountered set of transmitters that provide
coverage of 0.5 to 2.1 MHz.
Specifications
The following is a table of ARA/ATA, SCR-274-N, and AN/ARC-5 major components that could comprise a
typical three-receiver, two-transmitter installation, with other configurations also being possible. In addition,
several miscellaneous components are listed. A blank in the component ID column indicates that no equivalent
unit existed for that system.
MHz ARA-ATA
SCR-274-
N
AN/ARC-5
Navigation Receiver (Beacon Band)
0.19 -
0.55
CBY-46129 BC-453-(*) R-23(#)/ARC-5
Navigation Receiver (Broadcast Band) 0.52 - 1.5 CBY-46145 BC-946-(*) R-24/ARC-5
Communication Receiver 1.5 - 3.0
CBY-46104
(1)
R-25/ARC-5
CBY-46105
(1)
BC-454-(*) R-26/ARC-5
CBY-46106
(1)
BC-455-(*) R-27/ARC-5
Communication Receiver - Four Channel 100 - 156 R-28/ARC-5
Communication Receiver - Continuously Tunable 100 - 125 R-112/ARC-5
Communication Receiver - Continuously Tunable 125 - 156 R-113/ARC-5
Special Use Transmitter 0.5 - 0.8 T-15/ARC-5
Communication Transmitter 2.1 - 3.0 CBY-52232 T-18/ARC-5
Communication Transmitter 3.0 - 4.0 CBY-52208 BC-696-A T-19/ARC-5
Communication Transmitter - Four Channel 100 - 156 T-23/ARC-5
Communication Transmitter - Continuously
Tunable
100 - 125 T-89/ARC-5
Communication Transmitter - Continuously
Tunable
125 - 156 T-90/ARC-5
Communication Transmitter - Four Channel 100 - 146 T-126/ARC-5
Transmitter Modulator CBY-50083 BC-456-(*) MD-7/ARC-5
Transmitter Modulator Mount CBY-50084 FT-225-A MT-76/ARC-5
MF/HF Antenna Relay CBY-29125
BC-442-
(@)
RE-2/ARC-5
MF/HF Antenna Relay Mount CBY-29126 FT-229-A MT-77/ARC-5
Receiver Adapter, ILS (AN/ARN-9) Audio MX-19/ARC-5
Receiver Adapter, ZB (AN/ARR-1) Power CBY-62036 FT-310-A MX-20/ARC-5
Receiver Adapter, Remote Control Blank
CBY-49107
(2)
FT-230-A MX-21/ARC-5
Receiver Local Tuning Knob A.R.C. 6743 MC-237 A.R.C. 6743
Receiver Adapter, Local Control Panel
CBY-23154
(3)
FT-260-A C-24/ARC-5
Nav. Receiver ANT-LOOP Remote Control C-25/ARC-5
Single Tunable Receiver Control Box CBY-23261 BC-473-A C-26/ARC-5
Single Lock-Tuned Receiver Control Box C-27/ARC-5
Single Tunable Receiver Control Mount A.R.C. 7053 FT-235-A MT-4/ARR-2
Three-Receiver Remote Control Box CBY-23251 BC-450-A C-38A/ARC-5
Three-Receiver Remote Control Mount A.R.C. 7054 FT-222-A MT-98/ARC-5
Four-Transmitter Remote Control Box CBY-23243 BC-451-A C-30(#)/ARC-5
Four-Transmitter Remote Control Mount A.R.C. 7083 FT-228-A MT-80/ARC-5
Three-Receiver Rack CBY-46149 FT-220-A MT-65/ARC-5
Three-Receiver Rack Mount CBY-46150 FT-221-A MT-64/ARC-5
Two-Transmitter Rack CBY-52212 FT-226-A MT-71/ARC-5
Two-Transmitter Rack Mount CBY-52213 FT-227-A MT-70/ARC-5
Audio Jack Box J-22/ARC-5
Audio Jack Box Mount MT-78/ARC-5
Receiver Dynamotor
CBY-21531
(3)
DM-32-A
DY-2(#)/ARR-
2
Transmitter Dynamotor CBY-21626 DM-33-A DY-8/ARC-5
Receiver Remote Tuning Shaft A.R.C. 6151 MC-215-A A.R.C. 6151
Tuning Shaft Right Angle A.R.C. 6357 MC-211-A MX-22/ARR-2
Homing Adapter 234 - 258 ZB-series R-1/ARR-1 R-1/ARR-1
Homing Receiver 234 - 258 R-4(#)/ARR-2
Notes:
(1) Also component of RAV system. (2) Also component of RAT system. (3) Also component of RAT-1 and
RAV systems. (*) A (basic model) or B (1st revision). (#) No letter (basic model) or A (revision). (@) A
(basic model) or AM (field modified to remove vacuum capacitor).
Audio frequency receiver output and modulator sidetone impedance for the ARA/ATA and the AN/ARC-5 is
300 to 600 ohms. In the SCR-274-N, "-A" version receiver and modulator impedance is 4000 ohms, while "-
B" and later version units have a 250 ohm tap on the AF transformers which can be connected.
ARA/ATA units and equivalent SCR-274-N units are interchangeable between systems, aside from audio
impedance differences. However, AN/ARC-5 units generally are not interchangeable with the units of the
earlier systems.
In contrast to ARA and SCR-274-N receivers, all AN/ARC-5 receivers have automatic volume control and a
modified tube complement. The AN/ARC-5 navigation receivers have terminals and a switch to connect a
DU-series direction finding loop to the receiver, and have a special audio line for an MX-19/ARC-5 adapter to
allow the receiver to serve as an LF/MF localizer for the Navy's short-lived AN/ARN-9 Air-Track (related to
ZA, ZAX) instrument landing system. These two capabilities were rarely if ever utilized. Otherwise,
equivalent receivers of all three systems can interchange as a unit.
Few transmitter components of the AN/ARC-5 are interchangeable with ATA or SCR-274-N equivalent
units. Mechanically, the transmitter rear power connector is slightly different, so inserting the wrong
transmitter in a rack can damage either the rack or the transmitter power connector. Electrically, AN/ARC-5
transmitters use high-level final amplifier plate modulation, and the output tank circuit is shunt high voltage
fed. The two earlier systems use less effective screen modulation, and the output circuit is series high voltage
fed. The only electrical components of the AN/ARC-5 transmitter system that are interchangeable with the
earlier systems are the dynamotor and the antenna relay.
Unlike earlier systems, none of the AN/ARC-5 control boxes have audio jacks for the microphone,
headphone, or key. A separate jack box is used instead. AN/ARC-5 transmitter control boxes contain no
Morse key.
The broadcast band receiver in all of these command sets is intended to host a homing adapter for the Navy
ZB/YE homing system. The homing adapter demodulates a signal near 246 MHz that is modulated with a
broadcast band carrier. The output is sent to the broadcast band receiver tuned to the modulating frequency to
further demodulate the carrier for voice messages or for a Morse code letter indicating to the pilot his bearing
from the homing transmitter. All broadcast band receivers came with a power adapter to supply power to the
homing adapter. The adapter under the Navy nomenclature system is the ZB-series. The identical unit under
JAN nomenclature is the AN/ARR-1. This system was used by both the Navy extensively and the Army
much less so. To put the system into operation on the aircraft, the beacon band receiver would be replaced in
the rack by the broadcast band receiver. The antenna post is connected to the output of the homing adapter,
and a power cable is connected from the homing adapter to the broadcast band receiver. The normal control
that had been used for the beacon band receiver also serves this homing system without further
reconfiguration.
Western Electric developed the AN/ARR-2, an all-in-one homing receiver that replaced the broadcast band
receiver and external homing adapter and had other enhancements as well. The R-4A/ARR-2 uses the same
dynamotor as the AN/ARC-5 sets, fits in the same racks, and can be controlled by special AN/ARC-5 control
boxes. The AN/ARR-2 replaced the earlier R-24/ARC-5 and R-1/ARR-1 combo in AN/ARC-5 installations.
Western Electric developed a four-channel crystal-controlled VHF-AM receiver and transmitter for the U.S.
Army's SCR-274-N system. The Army did not adopt these VHF components to any extent because of the
move to a common British/American VHF capability in the form of the Bendix SCR-522 VHF-AM set. That
remained Army policy until the arrival of the AN/ARC-3. The Navy adopted modified versions of the
Western Electric units as the R-28 receiver and T-23 transmitter. The T-126/ARC-5 is a late variant of the T-
23 which allows the four channels to be grouped lower in a 100 to 146 MHz tuning range than does the T-23.
A typical installation of ARA/ATA or SCR-274-N sets would consist of a 3.0 to 6.0 MHz, a .19 to .55 MHz,
and a 6.0 to 9.1 MHz receiver in a three-unit rack. Any two transmitters covering the desired frequency ranges
would be in the transmitter rack. The two transmitters would be fixed-tuned before take-off, with the pilot able
to select the desired transmitter and control the mode (Voice, MCW, CW) at the transmitter control box. The
receivers were tuned at the pilot's control box by electrical cables and long mechanical tuning shafts, allowing
remote control of power, mode, frequency, and volume.
AN/ARC-5 set composition and control differed markedly from the earlier systems. Three-unit receiver racks
were still predominant, but the receiver line-up was quite different. One receiver would usually be a R-4A
homing receiver, another the VHF R-28, and the last an MF/HF communication receiver. The transmitter rack
would hold a VHF T-23 and an MF/HF transmitter corresponding to the MF/HF receiver. AN/ARC-5
communications receivers usually have a yellow circle-S stamped on the front panel to indicate that the
receiver is a frequency-stabilized version. Such receivers were not remotely tuned by the pilot, but were
instead lock-tuned to the associated transmitter's frequency before take-off. AN/ARC-5 navigation receivers
are not so stabilized, and if installed in the rack a control that allows remote tuning is required.
Because of these characteristics, AN/ARC-5 close equivalents to the control boxes of the ARA/ATA and
SCR-274-N are rare or never existed. The most common AN/ARC-5 receiver remote control box is the C-
38/ARC-5, which allows control only of audio volume of the VHF and MF/HF receivers. No power, mode,
or frequency controls are present. The C-38 also has controls for the R-4A homing receiver. A common
AN/ARC-5 transmitter control box C-30A/ARC-5 has controls for selecting the MF/HF transmitter or the
VHF transmitter, and a switch to select the channel for both the VHF transmitter and receiver. Mode controls
are normally set for voice and covered.
The typical AN/ARC-5 three-receiver, two-transmitter installation reflects system capabilities that are quite
sophisticated compared to the earlier systems, allowing VHF homing, four channel VHF-AM
communications, and one channel MF/HF-AM communications. All unnecessary controls have been
eliminated to simplify operation of this more capable system.
Aircraft Radio Corporation, along with Stromberg-Carlson, made most AN/ARC-5 units except for the
Western Electric VHF units.
The AN/ARC-5 certainly represents the climax development of the pre-war MF/HF command set. But its
VHF AN/ARC-5 set and the AN/ARR-2 homing adapter presaged a move toward higher frequencies. During
World War II, the Navy began a slow movement toward VHF-AM for command functions in theaters where
it made sense, beginning with the Western Electric WE-233A commercial airline set which was later re-
designated the AN/ARC-4. By 1943 they began began deploying their own AN/ARC-1 ten-channel VHF-
AM set in increasing numbers, but hedged their bets with the AN/ARC-5 VHF sets in certain aircraft. This
experimentation even caused them to contract for and officially nomenclature a continuously tunable
AN/ARC-5 VHF capability from ARC for evaluation purposes, shown in the above chart, but by that time
(latter part of 1944) channelized equipment became the preferred technology to reduce aircrew "fiddling" with
controls, so it was not pursued beyond the evaluation quantities. By late war, the discovery of "ducting" in the
lower VHF band (that allowed Japanese tactical radio intercepts over long distances under certain conditions)
drove development of the AN/ARC-12 (UHF version of the AN/ARC-1) and AN/ARC-27 sets in currently-
used UHF-AM military aircraft band. However, it is important to understand that this gradual movement to
VHF was not accomplished overnight, and there were still pockets of documented HF command set
employment through war's end, especially in smaller aircraft.
In terms of longevity, the AN/ARR-2 continued into service well into the 1950s, and the beacon band R-
23A/ARC-5 receiver was still to be found in some older US Navy aircraft as late as the 1970s.
LF/MF/HF receivers all use a similar same 6-tube superhet design: r.f. amplifier (12SK7), converter (12K8),
two i.f. stages (two 12SK7's, or 12SK7/12SF7), diode detector/BFO (12SR7), and one audio stage (12A6).
Transmitters use four tubes: 1626 oscillator, two 1625 finals, and 1629 magic-eye tuning. The latter gives a
visual indication, viewable by raising a small cover, when the oscillator's frequency matches that of an internal
crystal, thus allowing a check of the dial calibration.
Gallery
SCR-274-N:
Receivers
BC-454-B, BC-453-B,
BC-455-B
in Rack FT-220-A.

SCR-274-N:
Transmitters
BC-457-A, BC-459-A
in Rack FT-226-A.

SCR-274-N:
Receiver Control
BC-450-A,
Transmitter Control
BC-451-A,
Modulator
BC-456-B,
Antenna Relay
BC-442-A.

SCR-274-N and
AN/ARR-1:
Broadcast Band
Receiver
BC-946-B,
Homing Adapter
R-1/ARR-1.

AN/ARC-5 and
AN/ARR-2:
Homing Receiver
R-4A/ARR-2,
HF Receiver
R-26/ARC-5,
VHF Receiver
R-28/ARC-5
in Rack
MT-65/ARC-5.

AN/ARC-5:
VHF Transmitter
T-23/ARC-5,
HF Transmitter
T-20/ARC-5
in Rack
MT-71/ARC-5.

AN/ARC-5 and
AN/ARR-2:
Receiver Control
C-38/ARC-5,
Transmitter Control
C-30A/ARC-5,
Audio Jack Box
J-22/ARC-5,
Modulator
MD-7/ARC-5,
Antenna Relay
RE-2/ARC-5,
DC Power Filter
F-5/AR.

AN/ARC-5:
Single Tunable
Receiver Control
C-26/ARC-5,
Beacon Band Receiver
R-23A/ARC-5
with ILS Adapter
MX-19/ARC-5,
Broadcast Band
Receiver
R-24/ARC-5 with
Local Control
C-24/ARC-5,
Local Control
Shorting Plug
MX-2/ARR-2.
General Documentation
NavAER 08-5Q-95 Handbook of OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS for MODEL AN/ARC-5 Aircraft
Radio Equipment, 21 February 1944
AN 16-30ARC5-2, Handbook of MAINTENANCE INSTRUCTIONS for MODEL AN/ARC-5
Aircraft Radio Equipment VOLUME 1 LF MF HF Components, 15 December 1954
[2]
AN 08-10-195, Handbook of MAINTENANCE INSTRUCTIONS for MODEL AN/ARC-5 Aircraft
Radio Equipment VOLUME 2 VHF Components, 10 April 1945
NavAER 08-5Q-261, Handbook of OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS for MODEL AN/ARR-2
Aircraft Radio Equipment, 1 May 1944
AN 16-30ARR2-2, Handbook of MAINTENANCE INSTRUCTIONS for MODEL AN/ARR-2
Aircraft Radio Equipment, 1 May 1954
TO 12R2-3SCR274-2, Handbook, MAINTENANCE INSTRUCTIONS, RADIO SET SCR-274-N,
25 July 1956
[3]
See also
AN/ART-13
AN/ARR-11 (BC-348)
References
1. ^ Entire ARC-5 (http://aafradio.org/flightdeck/arc5-1.htm)
2. ^ http://bama.edebris.com/manuals/military/an-arc5/
3. ^ http://bama.edebris.com/manuals/military/scr274/
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