[ARC5] 1155

[J. Forster]

> hello john , of course you are right.fortunately my set is entirely
> original , but it was getting to be in a bad way. phil who lives near me
> is an 1155 enthusiast and asked me if he could rebuild it. the performance
> is now what it was in 1950 and all the wiring is new.i run the set up from
> the original ground power units which are as big as a small refrigerator.

Yup, and much, much heavier. A single person cannot lift the Transmitter
supply alone, Olympic weightlifters excepted. I may have the only pair in
the US.

> the ARC5 is a much more advanced concept and i personally think that the
> command equipment was inspired by german technology . there are many
> similarities .
> the concept is marvellous in it's simplicity , and i am told that failure
> was rare.having separate receivers and transmitters . cheers alan

They are really different. The ARC-5s have narrow frequency coverage; the
R.1155 is a genertal coverage receiver with bandswitching.

To be fair, it'd take >5 ARC-5s to cover part of the spectrum an R.1155 does.

If the design mission is purely to communicate on a very few frequencies
to other planes in the flight or home base, the ARC-5 wins.

If the mission includes general signal surveilance, the R.1155 wins.

YMMV,

-John

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