[ARC5] 13.5 to 20 Mhz ARC-5 on Ebay

[David Stinson]

William Donzelli wrote:

>>Has anyone ever seen an actual GT/RBD unit? I know the nomenclature was 
>>assigned but I have never seen a piece of equipment with that on its tag.
> 
> 
> Apparently there was a glitch in the Navy naming department, and RBD was
> first (or mistakenly) assigned to the updated ARC set, but later really
> assigned to a shipboard version of the General Electric RAX. These GE sets
> exist, but are not very common (although there was just an RBD dynamotor
> on Ebay). The matching transmitter is TCX.

All this seems to have come about at the time the Navy
was shifting from using one nomen system to another
(which they changed several times again, afterward).