[Milsurplus] ARC-5: More on the RBD Nomenclature

[WA5CAB@cs.com]

Dave, et al,

As the ARA nameplates are riveted to the receiver top covers, perhaps someone 
doing restorations may have removed them in order to refinish the covers.  Or 
has a cover or covers that they plan to refinish when they get a round tuit.  
Also, there are probably a few top covers around that are badly mangled and 
not reasonably restorable but with nameplates that it wouldn't hurt anything 
to remove and inspect.  I'm pretty sure that I've sold or swapped some likely 
candidates in the last five years or so.

In a message dated 4/19/2003 3:09:15 AM Central Daylight Time, 
milsurplus-request@mailman.qth.net writes: 
> This being the case, there should be GT/RBD nomenclatured 
> radios out there somewhere.  And this leads me to another 
> question:  Were RAV and RBD radios reworked and 
> tagged "ARA?"  The practice of reworking older sets
> to fit newer standards was certainly practiced at the time.
> There are little or no electrical differences between
> the RAV and the ARA; the A.R.C. drawing 
> and part numbers are identical.
> This may be the case for the earlier RBD.  
> It could have been as simple as installing a new nomenclature tag
> to turn an RBD (or an RAV) into an ARA.
> If so, I would expect that only the 1st-run ARAs
> (those with dated contract tags) would be candidates.
> 
> I have a DM-32 dynamotor tag that was flipped over
> and restamped for the later D-10.  
> It's possible that- were we able to look under that ATA/ARA tag, 
> we might see a GT or an RBD.
> I'm not going to pop mine off to look.
> At least, not before finding some way to determine if
> they've been flipped.

73
Robert Downs
Houston
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