[ARC5] ARR-1

[D C _Mac_ Macdonald]

Let's face it!  The performance of the BC Band "Command" set receivers probably exceeded at least 98% of the rest of receivers out there!  I doubt that "our" receivers could do anything close to "HI-FI" but they sure could dig out the weak ones for BCB DXing.  And it's probably 99.9% now! 
  
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> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:51:37 -0400
> From: aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org
> To: kgordon2006 at frontier.com; ARC5 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] ARR-1
> 
> On 9/16/2014 1:17 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> > I still think the guys who
> > designed it were sheer geniuses.
> 
> You won't get any disagreement from me...:-)
> 
> > Have any of you ever seen a BC-946B with the added bits necessary for use
> > with the YE/ZB system?
> 
> Fairly frequently.  The only added accessory necessary was the FT-310-A 
> for power to the ARR-1, so the originals I've seen all had that adapter 
> in the front drawer.
> 
> > I never have, but one would think that if the Army
> > used that system with the B-29s, there must have been some use of the
> > BC-946B...or perhaps the Army used Navy equipment?
> 
> The ARR-1 is one of the few examples of common sense overcoming 
> Army/Navy insularity and Service rivalry.  In that sense, the JAN system 
> probably had the intended effect, or at least the *beginnings* of 
> efficacy.  There are some other examples, like the AN/ART-13, and they 
> all seem pushed by two factors - combat need and exigency.  I wouldn't 
> push the envelope so far as to say the Army would use a Navy receiver, 
> however, even though the BC-946 had essentially that birthright once 
> removed.
> 
> > What I don't quite understand is that if that system (YE/ZB) was used so
> > extensively, why were there so few BC band receivers made?
> 
> Perhaps because there were alternatives for the ARC broadcast receiver, 
> including the RU and SCR-183/283 receivers.  The original ZB in the 
> article on my website was installed on an RU set.
> 
> > I think I DO know why there are so few left: most were hacked to ribbons by
> > those wanting HiFi AM tuners...
> 
> I'm sure that was part of it. :-)
> 
>   - Mike