[ARC5] What is a TS-306/ARW?

[Mike Everette]

This test set may have also been used with the remote control equipment in pilotless drone aircraft.  Would be interesting to know the contract date.  If it's a wartime contract it could have been used with the radio-controlled B-17s and B-24s developed for attacking German sub pens and other "hard targets."  It was one of these aircraft in which Joe Kennedy, the older brother of JFK, was killed.

It may also have been used with radio-controlled aircraft employed in postwar nuclear tests for taking air samples.  Or, with target drones such as the QB-17 and QB-29, in missile testing.

At one time I had an ARW-19 transmitter which had been converted for AM use on the Chicken Band... it was given to me as junk.  It had an FT-243 crystal which came out to Channel 11.  I was able to put it on 10 meters without any problems, but ultimately dismantled it for parts; I think I still have one or two out of the four square panel meters.

73

Mike
W4DSE


--- On Sat, 3/23/13, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:

> From: Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] What is a TS-306/ARW?
> To: jfor at quikus.com
> Cc: Arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Saturday, March 23, 2013, 8:16 PM
> On 23 Mar 2013 at 16:59, J. Forster
> wrote:
> 
> > That's consistant with my guess.
> > 
> > It sounds like it might be a transmitter; each switch
> would turn on/off a
> > tone; the receiver relay state would control a light.
> The meter might
> > indicate the receiver tuning; the crystal to set the Tx
> channel spot on.
> > 
> > From what you say, it sounds like a Test Set for
> setting up/checking the
> > receiver to go in a guided bomb, preflight.
> > 
> > I'd expect it to have an RF connector, a power
> connector, and a connector
> > to the receiver of about 12 to 20 pins. I'd also expect
> a PS for the unit
> > and a DC PS to power the receiver. Probably a RF level
> control too.
> > 
> > I'm just guessing though. A pic would be nice.
> 
> OK. I'll post some photos asap.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ken
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