[ARC5] An Update

[Dean Billing]

Jack -

Jack Antonio wrote:

> 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.

That would be the project.  Ed lived around the corner from Ernie, less 
than a mile or so.
I tried to build the conversion a couple of times and Ernie got the 
second one working sort of.  It was my workmanship, not his design.  He 
made a number of versions of the transceiver and even ran them mobile.  
Ernie eventually wrote a booklet completely detailing the conversion, 
both mechanical details and electronic details, this would probably be 
in the early 60's after about the third version or so.

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

Any chance you have a copy of this particular article.  I would like a 
copy if I could get it.

73 -- Dean     WA6IKJ