[Milsurplus] RAK AND RAL

[Bob Camp]

Hi

RCA Camden NJ was active in the military electronics business (as a prime contractor / doing design work) well into the 1980’s. 

Bob

> On Jul 23, 2016, at 11:37 PM, Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via Milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> Thanks  for   the  list of differences. Good to know  the schematic  crosses all of them.
>  
> I think it is  neat this  is  RCA  as  we  can either  display  this in the Mil com  display or we also have a separate  'products of  rca'  display   whereas we try to obtain samples of various  RCA  made  items.  (We  even have a tiny  RCA table top electron microscope... although it is  kind of  rough...)
>  
> It is interested to see the diversity of  products...
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> Did  RCA  do the  design on the orig  RAK RAL?
>  
> thx  Ed#
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> In a message dated 7/23/2016 8:24:57 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, kgordon2006 at frontier.com writes:
> On 23 Jul 2016 at 22:29, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > OK  thanks  for the  solve on that  KEN
> > ( those on looking see messages titled Re: [Milsurplus] RAK AND RAL - Holy
> > Cow!!)     QUESTION  what are the differences between RAK-5 in the manual and
> > RAK-7 radio as we have  here in hand?
> 
> There are two differences: one component wise, one otherwise.
> 
> 1) The antenna connector in the 7 is a more modern, more shielded 
> connector than is on the 5 version. It is a large "coax" type connector specific 
> to the Navy.
> 
> 2) Most "different" models of older Navy receivers simple denote different 
> manufacturers. The different models of the RBL are a case in point.
> 
> The only difference between the RAK-7 and the RAK-8 is that the RAK-7 is 
> made by Andrea Radio, while the RAK-8 is made by Motorola.
> 
> The schematics are all identical, as far as I have been able to tell.
> 
> Ken W7EKB
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