[ARC5] Army/Navy transmitters from a NON COLLECTOR viewpoint, the ham version...

[Robert Downs]

This is a common misconception that older hams at least should know better than but mostly don’t.  During the first half of the War, besides the two different nomenclature systems, there were only two differences between what the Navy flew with and what the Army flew with.  The Navy started with Lo-Z audio and the Army with Hi-Z.  And the Navy bought two receiver and two transmitter models that at least initially the Army did not.  Otherwise, the components were interchangeable.  AN/ARC-5 was a Joint set, neither Navy nor Army.

 

Robert Downs

 


2: Any suggestions on how a beat-up FT-226-A tray might accommodate either style transmitter? I am thinking having each
rear connector wired for a particular transmitter pin out, but how to avoid accidentally putting the wrong version in the wrong
slot? One side Army, one side Navy...





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