[ARC5] Bendix Radios

[Mike Morrow]

The AN/ARC-9 was bought by the USAAF.  Even though it was called the AN/ARC-9, it bore no such nomenclature plate...just the commercial Bendix RTA-1B and commercial accessories.

Later the USAF used other commercial gear without JAN nomenclature...like the Collins 18S-4 and 618S-1.

Mike / KK5F


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Hanz <aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org>
>Sent: Mar 4, 2015 9:15 PM
>To: Jim Wiley <jwiley at gci.net>, ARC5 at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [ARC5] Bendix Radios
>
>On 3/4/2015 8:10 PM, Jim Wiley wrote:
>> The military may have purchased some of the items, and it looks as if 
>> some were easily adaptable to military use simply by bolting a 
>> military nameplate over the "civilian" nomenclature. Don't know any of 
>> this for certain, but it seems a likely outcome.
>
>Curiously, US military nameplating didn't happen with the vast majority 
>of the Bendix commercial equipment sets.  In fact, the only one I can 
>think of that actually received a military nomenclature was the AN/ARC-9 
>(RTA-1B transceiver).  The Navy, which used far more of the Bendix sets 
>than the Army, seemed content to leave the manufacturers number on the 
>set, and even the gray wrinkle paint scheme that graced the commercial 
>equipment.  The Army got into the game a bit later and seems to have 
>acquiesced to the Navy tradition.  I've always wondered why Bendix alone 
>seems to have largely escaped the nomenclature wars.
>
>73,
>Mike  KC4TOS
>
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