[Milsurplus] Arinc history

[Ray Fantini]

Once again , maybe it's my limited understanding but the ARC-1 is a newer radio then the ARC-4 Look at the tube line up and limited coverage of the ARC-4 and the improvements that were rolled into the ARC-1, maybe the WE-233 was around first and the ARC-4 did not make it to the military until later? Maybe something like the AN/PRC-74 being an older radio being deployed way before the AN/PRC-70?
The ARC-3 is way better then both the ARC-1 and ARC-4 and served well into the late sixties and early seventies, so maybe numbers can be deceiving?
Thought someone would throw out contract dates and production numbers?

Ray F/KA3EKH

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Well, the ARC-1 dates to 1943 or maybe later, doesn’t it ?

I recall now reading in “Men and Volts at War” by General Electric Co. that Japan had captured some ARC-1 but had no way to copy its complexity.

This is no doubt true; in those years, who else could build an autotune mechanism like that ? But you have to wonder about the absolute veracity

of some of such anecdotes.

Was there not some conversion article that changed output to 6 or maybe even 10 meters ?

-Hue Miller
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