[ARC5] RAX Receiver (and the GO that GOes with it)

[Mike Morrow]

Todd wrote:
> As much as I like the ARC-5 receivers and RU-16, the RAX-1 triplets 
> are simply uber cool to me.

Mike wrote:
>I have a warm spot for them as well...
>... they are pretty cool for a WWII aircraft receiver.

I've warmed to them as well.  I've expressed my thought that it was one
of three possible receiver systems for the GO-4, -5, or -6, which were
also made by General Electric.

Possible receivers for the G.E. GO-4/5/6 (300 to 600 kHz, 3000 to 26500 kHz):
(1)  A.R.C. RU-12 (195 to 13575 kHz) plus A.R.C. RAT-1 (13500 to 27000 kHz)
(2)  A.R.C. RAV (190 to 27000 kHz)
(3)  G.E. RAX-1 (200 to 27000 kHz)

Obviously, the G.E. design won, for good technical reasons.  The CG-46116
and CG-46117 have two RF stages and three IF stages (just like the BC-348-*).
The A.R.C. offerings have one RF stage and two IF stages.  I wonder how that
worked out at the higher frequencies.

I'd love to have the equipment and space for an all-G.E. RAX-1/GO-6 station.

This next web page has a picture of what it erroneously calls a GO-9 that's
part of a PBY cutaway exhibit at the National Museum of Naval Aviation at
Pensacola:

 http://www.pbyrescue.com/cutaway/int7.htm

Compare it to Mike's GO-9:

 http://aafradio.org/flightdeck/go9.htm

Definitely these are not the same.  In fact, the manufacturer name at the
bottom of the nomenclature plates has two words that are likely "General
Electric".  I suspect the NMNA exhibit is actually a GO-6, maybe the last
surviving example.  I'll have to visit NMNA later this year and see if I
can get more information on this exhibit.

Mike / KK5F