[ARC5] Navy Laison Radios?

[wf2u at ws19ops.com]

Roy,

I think the RU-19 is a neat receiver - I haven't put mine on the air  
yet, so I have no experience with it or data on performance.
I was lucky enough to find the RU-19, shock mount, all the  
accessories, including the connectors, junction and control boxes and  
the dynamotor from a Silent Key's estate sale. I just have to make up  
the interconnecting the cables and hopefully get it running. Mine will  
be a single-receiver setup, as I have only one RU-19, but if I find  
one more, I can duplicate the original setup with the GO-9, which had  
2 RU-19's and 2 receiver control boxes.

The receiver you're talking about, if not the ARB, may be the  
R-105/ARR-15 (made by Collins) which post-WW2 was used with the Navy  
ART-13B, and it was also presettable for the same number of channels  
as the ART-13 and could be wired into the same control box. Here is a  
link for a photo:
http://www.hypertools.com/51h3.html .
The other aircraft receiver I can think of is the Bendix RA-1B  -
  http://www.vk2bv.org/museum/ra1b.htm .

The third option is not an aircraft receiver but a BC-652A Signal  
Corps ground receiver, part of the SCR-506 system. Here is a link for  
a YouTube video on a BC-652A receiver in operation:   
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0YP5ZSOi1o  .

Any of these ring a bell?

73, Meir WF2U
Landrum, SC

Quoting Roy Morgan <k1lky at earthlink.net>:

> On Dec 9, 2008, at 8:13 AM, Meir-WF2U wrote:
>> Regarding the GO-9, the receiver used with it was the RU-19 mainly.
>
> Meir,
>
> Now that you've said that, I guess I'll have to put the RU-19 on my
> want list!  In the meantime, I suppose it would not be bad to my BC-348
> with the GO-9.
>
> I'm trying to identify the radio I borrowed from an elmer when I was a
> Novice.  It had a square front panel, and was somewhat deeper than it
> was wide/tall.  There was a very small dial window in the middle top
> that was very hard to read.  The dial was similar to the ARB one, but
> it extended out from the  panel a bit in the way the BC-348 one does if
> I remember right.   I think the glass was curved to magnify they small
> dial plate behind.  The thing almost certainly used octal tubes.  Any
> ideas?  I thought it might be an ARB, but pictures of those that I see
> do not show the radio I remember.
>
> I have a calibration chart I made up for that radio, with notes on the
> radio type and serial number I think, so it's a mystery that will be
> solved once I find that notebook of old.  I do still have the LM
> frequency meter I must have used to make that calibration graph.
>
> That elmer was W1MHS. He was the postmaster of Mount Herman School in
> Northfield, Mass, near where I lived, and may have gotten that call
> during the 40's.  That call was in the QTH data base some time ago, but
> is not  now.  It's quite likely the call is lapsed due to old age, or
> even SK status - this was in the late 1950's.
>
> Roy
>
> Roy Morgan
> k1lky at earthlink.net
> 529 Cobb St.
> Groton NY, 13073