[Milsurplus] USN: ARB receiver used with GP-7 transmitter?

[Hue Miller]

> Mike Morrow wrote:
> >The best airborne HF set of the war, IMO, was the USAAF's AN/ARC-8 which
> >matched the best transmitter (the USAAF's slightly improved ART-13A) with
> >the best receiver (BC-348) fielded by anyboby anywhere (as long as remote
> >receiver control wasn't needed).

But in terms of the best overall, most compact for its capability, most sophisticated
radio, how about the ARC-1 ?

Mike Hanz:
> I have a photo of the pair  [ ARB,ATD ] in an SBD, but I don't know what 
>the time > period of the photo was.  As you said, it seems like a natural match 
>for  liaison work.

Great! That kinda verifies the scanty reference to ATC predecessors, in the Collins
50 Year Anniversary book.  Also, i'm really glad to learn this existed, at least in one
installation, because i was concerned that if i paired the ARB with my ATD it would
be a "fantasy setup."

>  Mike Hanz:
> No argument from me, although a separate radio operator with the space 
> for a receiver in front of him wasn't common on Navy aircraft.  Besides, 
> how would it look to have a tainted AAF radio in a Navy airframe?  :-)

But Mike, what about those BC-348s that replaced the RAX's (and the ATC
replacing the GO ), in at least some PBY amphibs, '43 on? Chet Wisner told
me he operated both setups in the PBY on Caribbean patrols from E Coast
USA down to the Caribbean islands ( sorry i didn't get more details on this...)
( Now that i think about it, it's interesting that the same PBY type planes had
both the supposed standard RU-GO and the better RAX-GO. )
And i don't know why some of the very same aircraft made it thru to the end
of the war with the old RU-GO still onboard.

Ken Gordon:
> So, to try to get things back on track, does anyone know for 
> sure what radio gear a just-post-war Avenger would have 
> carried?

Would likely to be exactly the same as just pre-war end equipment, i think:
ARB, ATC, and ARC-1, for the comm gear.

Dave Stinson:
> The AN/ARC-5 R-26 and R-27s with the Spot-Tuner
> attachments were specifically designed for use
> with the ART-13.  How well they worked, I don't know.
> Will try it out one day.

In CB lingo (highly technical), this would be called an "alligator radio": big mouth,
little ears.
-Hue Miller