Thanks for that. Most of the history is about the ARC glory days, well deserved.The ARN-30D receiver segment, the R-34, was my project. Following 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 finishef 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 left ARC in 1962.My ARC mentor, John Doremus, had already been let go. 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.
On Sat, Apr 6, 2024 at 7:36 PM Dave Rossetti <[email protected]> wrote:
A little ARC history for you.
Dave Rossetti
410-279-0226 mobileOn Apr 6, 2024, at 5:20 PM, [email protected] 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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