RCA AR88D

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These hugely heavy and incredibly sensitive sets were, rumour has it, produced for Lend-Lease agreements with England for service in World War II. They are quite common in the UK but scarce in the US. There appear to be two 'flavours' of AR88 - the 'D' version has a frequency coverage as per above whilst the 'LF' version goes down all the way to 75kHz.

The receiver consists of two RF stages, a mixer, local oscillator, three IF stages, a detector, noise limiter, BFO, AF amplifier, output stage and power supply system. The IF amplifiers incorporate variable selectivity and a crystal filter. The sets are normally housed in steel cases but can be rack mounted.

The receivers are designed for coupling to a 200 ohm transmission line, except on low frequency general broadcast bands. For these and general use a single wire 25 to 50 ft. long can be used.

The Reception set AR88D was originally manufactured as the Reception set AR88. It still bears this name on the front panel. The change in designation occurred between the serial numbers 003000 and 010000 and coincides with a change in the design of the output transformer to provide a 600 ohm balanced line output and a 20,000 ohm headphone output. The original AR88 featured a 20 ohm headphone output.

Type

Desktop Amateur HF Receiver 

Frequency range RX

0.535-32 MHz in six bands 

TX

- 

Frequency stability

- 

Tuning steps

- 

Filters

- 

Modulations

AM / CW 

Sensitivity

For 20dB S/N: 8µV at 1MHz, 4.5µV at 4.3MHz, 7µV at 16MHz, 7µV at 28MHz 

Selectivity

5 Settings: -3dB bandwidths 15kHz, 9kHz, 3.4kHz, 1.6kHz, 400Hz 

Receiver system

Single conversion, 14 valves 

IF-frequencies

455 kHz 

Image rejection

120dB at 1MHz
60dB at 16MHz
46dB at 28MHz 

Audio output

2.5 W (2.5 ohm external speaker or 600 ohm headphone) 

Modulations

- 

RF-output

- 

Antenna

- 

Impedance

200Ω 

Power requirements

100-260 VAC mains or 6V DC vibrator pack 

Current drain RX

100VA 

TX

- 

Dimensions (w×h×d)

488 × 280 × 488 mm (19.21 × 11.02 × 19.21 in)  

Weight

45 kg (99.3 lbs)  

Form factor

Desktop 

Manufactured

Between 1940 and 1945 in USA 

Memories

- 

Usage

Amateur / Ham radio operators 

Manufacturer

RCA 

Model

AR88D

Features

Optional S-meter 

 

None available  

 

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