[Milsurplus] Arinc history

[kgordon2006]

I am seriously considering that the author of that history on Arinc simply said "ARC-1" because he meant THE FIRST VHF AM aircraft rig available.As in "ARC-FIRST," and didnt realize or remember or know that its military designation was ARC-4 instead.Such things have happened in the past.Ken W7EK Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S21 5G, an AT&T 5G smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: Ray Fantini via Milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> Date: 8/3/25  19:02  (GMT-08:00) To: Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com>, milsurplus at mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Arinc history 




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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