[ARC5] Interesting Aircraft Radio Corporation Sets (RAJ, GF)

[Kludge]

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From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of Mike Morrow
> Has anyone on the list ever heard of an RAJ before? It would be something
to add to 
> anyone's A.R.C. file.

Yeah, you're local friendly Hawaii resident has a preliminary copy of the
manual in his stash and it has already been added to my lists.  Basically,
you're right; it is a mod of the RU-3 (actually, as Robert pointed out, the
RU-3A) for fixed location or mobile (automobile) installations.  

When I visualize this radio in service, I keep thinking of a listening post
set up in the back of a prewar panel truck with a disguised antenna of some
sort.  I can't think of a Tx that would work with it so being used for 2-way
comm doesn't seem to have been a factor.

> In the middle of the second linked document, there are two pages of info
> on the *very first* model of the GF...the one in which even the receiver
> is GF (not RU).  

This came up a month or two ago and I mentioned then that I have the manual
for it.  It is, in fact, the progenitor for the entire GF/RU and
SCR-A*-183/-283 line and the only one where they are identical.  The RU-2,
which was also used with the GF Tx, was the first with a BFO which the AAC
decided not to include.  (For a while, they used the BC-**-183 external
BFO.)  

IIRC, the RU Rx was the one from the original GF but without the Tx.  

Your tables look great and pretty much look like mine except I added space
for the different Navy type numbers etc to be completed later as I figure
them out.  (The basic types are easy; it's the version letter that's a
bugger.)  There's also a column for A.R.C. part numbers but I don't think
that's going to go very far.  Or maybe it will.  :-)

Best regards,
 
Michael, WH7HG BL01xh
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