[MRCA] RE: RCA AR-80

[Peter.Greene at L-3Com.com]

Thanks for all that replied.  Seems the AR-80 remains somewhat of a
mystery, but looks to be an AR-77 variant.  The unit in the photos was
modified, tubes replaced, etc., as several have pointed out.  But that
aside, only one other person on the list has apparently seen an AR-80
before!  I'll keep digging, but in the meantime, if anyone finds
anything further on the AR-80, please drop me a note.

Thanks & 73,

Pete N2LVI


-----Original Message-----
From: gl4d21a at juno.com [mailto:gl4d21a at juno.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:43 PM
To: Greene, Peter @ CSE
Subject: RCA AR-80

Pete:

One detail which apparently no one else picked up, the frequency range
goes from 500 kHz to 27 MHz.  IIRC, the AR-77 covered 10 meters, which
was 28 to 30 back then.  I suspect this is a commercial version,
possibly of limited production, and perhaps was manufactured for use in
the RCA shore stations.  Which would also explain the low end going down
to 500 kHz.  The components and layout look like late 1930's RCA, and
wartime could well ahve shut down production.

Feel free to share this with the RCA list, their servers have put me on
the spammer list, so I am unable to post directly.

73,
George
W5VPQ