[Milsurplus] making sense of nonsense

[David Stinson]

Just to add another clown to the Navy's nomenclature circus-
When Aircraft Radio Corp. produced the first
"GF/RU" set in 1932, BOTH the transmitter and receiver
were nomenclatured together in a set as "GF."
The receiver was only "RU" when used alone.
They seperated them into "GF-1" and "RU-2"
in 1934.  The "RU-1" was the receiver from the
previous "GF" set, when used alone.
How's *that* for loopy?
73 Dave S.

William Donzelli wrote:

>>You have aircraft transmitters both
>>AR- and  G-.
> 
> 
> The G series was discontinued when the A series came out. The GPs and GOs
> that we all know and love are actually the last of the lines. Yes, there
> are (were) GP-1 and GO-1s, back in the mid 1930s.