[Milsurplus] AN/ARC-50

[Mike Morrow]

>I saw an AN/ARC-50 on Sunday and it looks interesting, but I'm unable to
>find almost any info on it.

Not much.  I believe it is the first spread-spectrum or frequency-hopping
aircraft UHF command set, related to the AN/ARC-90, and at least 35 years old.

An overview of a textbook mentioning it is at:

(http://cict.inatel.br/nova2/docentes/dayan/Electronic_Library/e-BOOK/Spread%20Spectrum/00_fm.pdf)

That would make it the ancestor to today's "Have Quick" frequency-hopping UHF
command sets like the later versions of the AN/ARC-164.

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/HAVE_QUICK_II

Where did you see one?

Mike / KK5F