[Milsurplus] AN/ARC-48 Info?

Bob Wilder [email protected]
Wed, 22 May 2002 08:58:13 -0500


Mike:  What you have is a 2 watt UHF set designed
for use on
rotary wing and liason aircraft.  Normal
frequencies are
233.8, 234.6 and 236.2 MHz plus guard on 243.0 MHz

Do the little dynomotor should work fine.

Bob, AF2HD


Mike wrote:
> 
> I picked up an odd little receiver-transmitter, about the size and
> weight of an R-28/ARC-5, called an RT-307/ARC-48.  It appears to be a
> four-fixed-channel, remote-operated, low power HF (I think, but I may be
> wrong) unit made for the USN.
> 
> The dynamotor well accepts a DY-2A/ARR-2 dynamotor perfectly, yet this
> RT has a fair number of tubes and it's hard to see how an HF RT using a
> command set dynamotor could produce enough output to be worth the
> trouble.
> 
> Has anyone run across any info on such a unit?  A web search produced no
> useful.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike / KK5F
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