[ARC5] RAT/RAV radios question

[Robert Downs]

Apparently by accident this only went to one member last night.

 

From: Robert Downs [mailto:wa5cab at cs.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2020 18:57
To: 'kn7sfz'
Subject: RE: [ARC5] RAT/RAV radios question

 

They are just out of the Pre-War Navy electronic equipment nomenclature system.  The “R” means “Receiver”, or more specifically I think Radio Receiver.  The second letter and then the second and third letters were assigned alphabetically.  So RAT is a little older than RAV.  Slightly before the beginning pf WW-II, the system was modified only, AFAIK, for aircraft sets, with the first letter being an “A”.  And the second one being the same as in the unmodified system.  Thus we have the ARA, ARB, ARC, ARD, … and the ATA, ATB. ATC, ATD, …  That may have been as far as they got before the Navy and Signal Corps systems were superseded by the AN system.

 

Robert Downs

 

From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of kn7sfz
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2020 18:23
To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [ARC5] RAT/RAV radios question

 

I for one, would be interested in what RAT and RAV stand for?

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to educate the great unwashed...:-)

Richard  kn7sfz

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