[ARC5] Fwd: Re: Aircraft Radio Corp. and the Rockefellers

[Dave Rossetti]

I forward the following inputs from a friend who worked for ARC following WWII.

On Apr 6, 2024, 9:24 PM, at 9:24 PM, Paul Hart <pkharthave at gmail.com> wrote:
>Dave:
>
>Thanks for that.  Most of the history is about the glory days, well
>deserved.
>
>The ARN-30D receiver segment, the R-34, was my project.  After that,
>after
>Dr. Noyes declared that a synthesizer was out of the question for ARC,
>they
>wanted me to keep designing vacuum tube products.  By that time, I had
>done
>the RT-317A, a new design to satisfy Cessna.  ARC guys had built a
>really
>nice transistorized glideslope receiver, but I could see things coming
>undone and quit going to ITTFL in Nutley in 1962 designing
>transistorized
>power systems.  My mentor, John Doremus had already been fired, he
>wanted
>the company to dive hard into the transistor equipment fray, but Cessna
>would not allow the necessary funding to research the products.  A
>retired
>Admiral was hired as a caretaker after that and the whole operation
>went
>down the tubes.  Ray Chase was employed at ARC after I left and is a
>wealth
>of knowledge about the history of ARC.
>
>That was already the time when the US domestic electronics business was
>being torpedoed by the Feds and RCA for reasons still not understood.
>After ITT, I went to CAC in Chicago and migrated through that structure
>until retiring from USTA in DC at the end of 2001.  I was in DC in a
>meeting at the FCC 9/11 when the Pentagon was hit.
>
>Hart
>
>On Sat, Apr 6, 2024 at 7:36 PM Dave Rossetti <drossetti at comcast.net>
>wrote:
>
>> A little ARC history for you.
>>
>> Dave Rossetti
>> 410-279-0226 mobile
>> On Apr 6, 2024, at 5:20 PM, zakariya.abu at yandex.com wrote:
>>>
>>> An article on Aircraft Radio Corp.'s history available at:
>>>
>https://web.archive.org/web/20060823120607/http://www.scr-274-n.info/GWAOPA.PDF
>>> mentioned the company's collaboration with the Rockefellers on a
>radar
>>> jammer, albeit of an unspecified nomenclature.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, a Smithsonian Institution keeps a piece related to the
>>> AN/APW-11 radar beacon and guidance system for jet bombers:
>>>
>https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/radar-transponder-radar-bombing-c-400-xaapw-11/nasm_A19840595000
>>>
>>>
>>> It seems that the system or its parts were made by the A.R.C.
>>>
>>> The AN/APW-11 was used with the AN/APA-90 indicator at least on the
>>> Martin B-57B bomber (see attachments) and some UAVs.
>>>
>>> My question is: could the A.R.C.'s collaboration with the
>Rockefellers
>>> be related to the AN/APW-11 + AN/APA-90?
>>>
>>> 73,
>>>
>>> Jan SP5XZG
>>>
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