[Milsurplus] Nomenclature whimery)Was TRC-77)

[Jack Antonio]

And I've often wondered why the

AN/ARC-58 consists of an R-*** unit and T-*** unit
when it seems like it really should be and RT-*** and AM-***
like the GRC-106.

And there's probably lots more inconsistencies out there.

73

Jack



Mike Morrow wrote:

> I've always wondered why the small AN/TRC-77 and -88 sets weren't given AN/PRC- nomenclatures, and why the rather large, heavy AN/PRC-47 and AN/PRC-41 sets weren't given AN/GRC- or AN/TRC- nomenclatures.  Just arbitrary JAN-system whimsy, I'd guess, like many of those aircrew survival radios that were assigned AN/URC- nomenclatures without any real reason for AN/PRC- tags not being used instead.