[MRCA] ARC-5

[D. Platt]

The Navy contracted to the Aircraft Radio Corp. (ARC) for a VHF radio 
set during WWII.  The R-112 was the low VHF band and the R-113 was the 
high band.  As I understand from my contact with the old ARC company, 
these sets eventually became the Type 12 system that ARC sold to both 
the military and civil aviation.  If you have these older sets, they 
must be very rare.   There were matching transmitters for the above, 
too.  I can only assume that the ARC T-11( ) and T-13( ) were the result 
of these early rigs.  Note however that the T-11( ) and T-13( ) were 
crystal controlled, unlike the early transmitters.  I have all the Type 
12 books but nothing on these early sets....  Don't confuse A.R.C. with 
the AN-designation AN/ARC-5, although ARC Corp. did manufacture a lot of it.

de K3HVG

On 4/23/2012 7:51 PM, Paul and Julie Nell wrote:
> Anyone have information on R-112 and R-113 ARC-5 receivers?
>
> Thank you.
>