[Milsurplus] RAX-1 Contract Information

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:

> Perhaps additional orders were for unit two only because that was all that was used, it's a great assumption but maybe older "high band" radios were striped from inventory and the dynamotors from them were reused in the new unit two radios? May have been more cost effective to replace the unit 2 radio when it failed than try to repair it?

Both good possibilities. I thought perhaps they had a known inventory
of spare dynamotors when they wrote the contract specs. It just seems
like it would be difficult to write a specification for x number of
sets without dynamotors if you had to rely on someone saving them off
junkers or radios pulled from service, particularly not knowing their
serviceability.

All part of the mystery, but it clearly illustrates how things changed
from contract to contract, and IMO adds support to the RAX-1 being
used in the ELINT role at least in the first half of the war. With
newer equipment and solutions available later, there would be less
need for at least one of the sets. Same could go for any beacon or
other uses associated with the lower frequency unit, leaving Unit 2 as
a true liason receiver.

More shots in the dark.

~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4