[ARC5] GO-9, ATC, ATD, RAX-1, ARB Remarks

[David Stinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at earthlink.net>

> There's a mid-WWII USN training manual that has a section in the back that
> lists the radio equipment on most USN aircraft.  In every instance, the 
> ATD
> has the ARB is its companion.  Mike Hanz has a copy of this section at
> http://aafradio.org/docs/Navy-radio-gear-1943.pdf .  The RAX-1 seems
> associated only with the GO-9.  The ARB/ATD/ZB-*/LM-* combo is a perfect
> contemporary radio technology match-up!

I agree, Mike.  And I have an extra ARB.  But finding the parts for
the ARB/ATB set was a minor miracle, and even so I'm still missing one 
piece.
I won't say which because a certain gentleman, who is far kinder
to me than I deserve, will rob his set to send it.  I feel guilty enough ;-)
I can't imagine finding everything needed for another ARB set-up.
If I build ARB / ATD, I've got two incomplete sets with ARB
that will "bug" me every time I look at them.

No chance I'll get a GO-9 this side of the grass.
Got to pair the RAXs up with something, and ART-13s
have been done to death.

Yeah yeah.... I know...
I keep re-reading your "perfect technology match-up"
and it's working on me.....

> Which brings up another remarkable item.  In this 1943 training document
> there is *no* listing for the Collins ATC.  The ATD shows up in four 
> places
> and the ATC in none. I've always doubted that the ATC was available until
> the late-1943 to early-1944 era.  Its omission in this 1943 listing lends
> some evidence for that.  I don't believe there's any likelihood that the
> ATC was deployed in 1942, or even by mid-1943.

You're spot-on.  I've never seen a single photo or document
of  an ATC or ART-13 deployed until late.
There's got to be a really good story about why the ATC sat on
the shelf so long, but unless I hit the lottery and can spend about
a year digging in musty old documents in Washingtoon,
we're probably never going to know the story.

73 Dave S.