[NJARC] For those who like their radios heavy.....

[Ray Chase]

My data shows the RAB weighting in at 455 # total vs. 386 # total for 
the RBB or RBC so the RBB & RBC are relative lightweights.
Ray

Robert G. Flory wrote:

> >From "Evolution of Naval Radio-Electronics and Contributions of the Naval
> Research Laboratory":
> 
> ......the model RAB, 1000 to 30,000 kHz (1935) provided performance which in
> most respects was not exceeded through the war period.  However, its size
> and weight limited its installation to the larger ships and shore stations.
>  Of the more compact and lighter models which followed, the model RAL of
> the tuned-radio-frequency type, and the models RAO, RBB, RBC, and RBS of
> the superheterodyne type were procured in large numbers....
> 
> Gee, I have been laboring under the illusion that the RBB and RBC were the
> heavyweights.  
> 
> 73, Rob Flory
> 
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