[ARC5] An Update

[Jack Antonio]

There was a short write up about this BC-453 conversion
in a 1959 issue of Western Radio Amplifier. A couple of
during and after photographs. The gist of the write up
(by Ed Marriner W6BLZ) is that it was a difficult project
that shouldn't be attempted by just anybody, which was one
of the reasons it wasn't published as an article.

Western Radio Amateur was a nice little magazine that
came out in the late 50s, with plenty of surplus ads.

Jack Antonio WA7DIA
scr287 at sbcglobal.net


Dean Billing wrote:

> I am aware of a very interesting conversion of the BC-453 or R-23 
> navigation receiver into an 80 or 40 meter SSB transceiver designed by 
> Ernie Mason, W6IQY, (SK) of San Diego during the late 1950s. 
> 
> Regards -- Dean Billing WA6IKJ
> Laptop4Hire
> Sisters, OR