[ARC5] An Update

[Michael Tauson]

Hi, folks,

Okay, an update on the book.

Thanks to several Good People – Gordon Elliot White,
Ray Robinson, Bill Pileggi, Brian Clarke, and David
Ross come to mind immediately – and countless minutes
of exploration of the web, I’ve been accumulating bits
and pieces to put into some logical order (EEK!) so
that it all somehow makes sense.  There are still many
more bits to put together but that’s because the
vision for this version is different from the vision
for the earlier version.  

Somewhere along the line, I discovered that a good
part of the population who would be interested in this
sort of material has no clue as to the history et al
of the Command rigs which wasn’t as true in the 70s. 
With that, I mentioned that there were “ARC-5”
installations where there was precisely one piece of
ARC-5 equipment but never went into how that worked. 
This is another area that will be expanded, complete
with drawings from the various manuals and any other
source material I can find.  The end result I hope
will be a better guide to (pre-Cessna) Aircraft Radio
Corporation’s products.  It certainly will be a larger
one.

I would like to include some conversion material – at
least of the order of “This is what was done with
them” – as one (or more) of the late chapters.  I’ve
found a source for the old Surplus Conversion
Handbooks on DVD and have a reasonably complete list
of articles that were in QST but I have nothing for CQ
(including their books) or 73.  Yet.  I believe G&G
Surplus also published a few things but I can’t find
any reference at all on this subject.

Oh, yes.  Still on the want list: any information at
all regarding the F-10A filter–amplifier.  This was
made by Aircraft Radio Corp. and I believe this is
their number.  This and the FL-5/AR are among the
several “missing pieces” from the earlier publication.
 I believe the F-10A and its later versions were used
with the military versions of the Type 12 sets since
they don’t seem to have been available to civilians. 
Also, if anyone happens to have a spare copy of the
manuals for the ATA/ARA, SCR-283, DZ-2 and/or ARR-1, I
would like to acquire one of each.

Best regards,

Michael, K3MXO



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