[ARC5] Where's the beef?

[J. Forster]

The activity comes in spurts on this reflector. Often it's quiet for days on
end. The emphasis is also more on collecting and restoring, than modifying, in
my experience,

-John



R.Smith wrote:

> I just joined this group about a week ago,  doe's any still hang out
> here?  I've seen only a couple of postings about dynomotors and that's all.
> I'm a Q5-er lover.  I built my first one as a Novice in 1960,  my second
> around 1972, and am building another one now.  In the first one,  all
> onboard parts were very fresh and the radio worked flawlessly.
> The 2nd one was now about 25 years old and still worked great as is.
> The one I'm building now, had all the capacitors oozing a black liquid
> and most didn't test their respective values.  Reluctantly,  I "chopped"
> them all out and replaced them with mylars.  Receiver works great!  So
> now I be working on the converter.  It'll be using the broadcast band
> capacitor setup only as a tunable band pass device ahead of a 6GM6 rf
> amp.  That will capacitively couple to a 12AT7  mixer/xtal osc.
> Anyway, Hello to anyone and everyone out there.
> 73, K6ZL, AD6V, WA6JUB.