[ARC5] Aircraft Radio Corporation airband oddities

[zakariya.abu at yandex.com]

Hi Wayne,

I am basically aware of the Aircraft Radio Corp. Type 12 comm and nav 
products and their AN/ARC-60 UHF mil reincarnation (with transverter). 
Indeed, the early U-2 is supposed to have sported the Type 12 VHF set. 
There were actually very many airplanes and helicopters that used the 
Type 12 VHF comm and LF nav from the Aircraft Radio Corp. between the 
late 1940s and the late 1960s.

I wonder if you heard about any single name nomenclature of the setups 
discussed in my previous post or the non-Type 12 exotic setups?

73

Jan SP5XZG


W dniu 19.03.2024 o 17:34, releazer at earthlink.net pisze:
> The little 5 channel VHF transmitters were used as backup transmitters in the UH-1 but originally were part of a VHF comm system for light aircraft in the 1940's.  I have four of them, as well as matching receivers.  You see advertisements for them in late 1940's aviation magazines along with the similar VOR equipment.  I have been told they were also used in the early U-2 aircraft and the South Carolina Military Museum has a OH-47 on display with that equipment installed.  It is clear to me that the equipment was designed for light aircraft and was adopted as an emergency transmitter for the UH-1 because it was available and no doubt many were surplus to other requirements.  Also some light military aircraft used the   TV-10 or CV-431/AR, a transverter that enabled the VHF Type 12 equipment to receive UHF military aircraft band signals, with a build-in UHF transmitter.
> 
> Wayne
> WB5WSV
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