[ARC5] Navy Alphabet soup

[Robert Goff]

Hue,
I can believe that story about the TDE, since I can't think of any
other TD- transmitter other than the TDQ. Certainly not a whole
alphabet's worth.

There are receivers for most of the alphabet between RAA and RAZ, then
continuing on into the RB- series. I've never heard of an RAM or a
RAN, but some prototype might have existed.

I've heard people claim that ATC stood for Aircraft
Transmitter-Collins (later the ART-13), but since there were earlier
transmitters ATA, and ATB, and an ATD from Bendix competing for the
same contract, I put little faith in that etymology.

73,
de Robert W7MKA

Hue wrote:
The letters don't mean anything except the first letter. The remaining
letters are like the -5 in ARC-5, no meaning other than sequence.
 R= receiver. M= transceiver T= transmitter or transmitter-receiver system.

 The only case where I think ( think ) the letters for a Navy
equipment was the TDE transmitter, which I read in a GE book, was
developed
 particularly for Destroyer Escorts, DE's. I think in the case of the
TBS, the "Talk Between Ships" was just something picked up
colloquially
 by the crews.
 -Hue