[Milsurplus] AN/ARC-8(?) (ART-13B + ARR-15)

[William Donzelli]

> --Wait a minit. The RAX's way preceed the YE/YG/ZB system. I would
> also guess, just a guess, that a ZB converter used on a Navy plane 
> would be used with a medium wave ARA or ARC-5  receiver, and not
> the ship's comm-liaison receiver. I mean on large planes,  PBY PBM and
> such.

RAX and the YE were designed and fielded about the same time. The first
production contract for the YE was in 1939, I think. It is suprisingly
early for something so high up (246 MHz, generally, and they actually
worked!). 
 
> -Early GO's covered up to 21 or 27 MHz, didn't they?  I would think they
> were VERY squirrely at those  frequencies, plus the  erratic skip  nature
> of those  freqs would be a liability for Nacy coms.
 
I think some did. And I would think so. The shipboard stuff was likely 
far more stable.

Well, (very) early GOs were junk anyway. I don't know who the brainiac was
that thought putting an 860 in an aircraft transmitter was a great idea. 

William Donzelli
aw288@osfn.org