"A" - as in "AR88" - for "Amateur": Amateur Radio. No, I don't think so. The AR88 (and all its predecessors) was manufactured by RCA - an American company. In the USA, Radio Amateurs are called 'Hams'. On that basis, therefore, it would have become "HR88".
As for "that's where the receivers were intended to go before WW II broke out", that is not my understanding. I have always been led to believe that the AR88 was originally designed for fixed point-to-point commercial comms. links: at the time, a far bigger market than Amateur ('Ham') Radio.
But I hear your comments on the suffixes: thank you - I didn't know all of that. But I've never heard of an AR88A (Army) nor an AR88C (Civilian). So, was there an AR88N - "N" as in 'Navy'?
Al.
As for "that's where the receivers were intended to go before WW II broke out", that is not my understanding. I have always been led to believe that the AR88 was originally designed for fixed point-to-point commercial comms. links: at the time, a far bigger market than Amateur ('Ham') Radio.
But I hear your comments on the suffixes: thank you - I didn't know all of that. But I've never heard of an AR88A (Army) nor an AR88C (Civilian). So, was there an AR88N - "N" as in 'Navy'?
Al.
