[ARC5] New Person

[Michael Tauson]

Hi,

I'm new to the group but not to either surplus or
Command Sets, having used them in my Novice station in
'61-'63 plus playing with them a lot since.  That
playing lead me to write "A User's Guide to ARC Corp
Receivers" (NOT my title for it!) that Fair Radio has
sold for the past almost 30 years.  

I've finally gotten around to revising that messy bit
of writing with an eye toward additions, deletions,
corrections, spell checking (and spill chucking), and
just generally making it a bit more useful all the way
around.  

As before, I'm avoiding some of the more exotic units
so that I might concentrate on the ones that have been
and are more commonly found.  As a result, for
example, it will mention things like the T-23/ARC-5
and the R-28/ARC-5 but neither their predecessors nor
the SCR-274-N equivelents.  With that, I also would
like to expand a bit on the Type 12 and some later
sets but pretty much drop it at the point Cessna
bought ARC if not just a little before.  I also hope
to tie in things like the ARR-1 and ARR-2 but not
dwell on them.  

Thirty years ago when I did the original, it was with
paper manuals spread out all over the place (much to
my ex-wife's chagrin! <G>) and I was using a
typewriter with sticking keys and a sticking ribbon
using the two-finger "hunt-peck-cuss-backspace-a-lot"
method of typing.  My typing hasn't improved save in
speed (and spell checking <G>), but it's all
electronic now and I can have as many books open as I
need without taking up valuable floor space.  Plus, I
won't have to work in a vacuum as before but have
wonderful people like the folks here to ask questions.
 What an age we live in!  

This, in turn, leads me to a few questions right off. 
First off, I've run into a couple pieces of equipment
with which I'm not familiar, the BC-616 which was used
with the SCR-274-N, and the F-5/AR which apparently
was used with the ARC-5.  Also, there are some
filter-amplifiers (ARC types F-10 through F-15) that
have appeared on some of the sites I visit with which
I'm not familiar.  If someone could shed some light on
these pieces, I'd be ever so grateful.  

That does it for now, I think.

Best regards,

Michael, K3MXO in KH6-land

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