[ARC5] Drift in ARC-5s - real-world measurements. - quite long.

[dean at laptop4hire.com]

On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:00:27 -0600, Robert Nickels <ranickel at comcast.net>
wrote:
> Bob Macklin wrote:
>> What hams did with them after WWII is another story.
>>
>...
> 
> It's a 53 page conversion booklet titled "A SSB Transceiver from the
> BC-453" written by Ed Marriner W6BLZ and designed by Ernie Mason W6IQY,
> copyright April 1961 by Western Radio Amateur Publishing.of El Monte,
> CA.    In the preface, the author notes that "with the advent of SSB,
> home construction of equipment essentially stopped".   He goes on to
> assure "technical hams" that they could make this 40 meter SSB  rig with
> nothing more than the LF receiver, which was available surplus at very
> low cost back then, a VTVM and an RF probe.   Well, and a bunch of parts
> ;-)  Not to mention a few hundred hours of spare time.
> ...

Is there any possibility that others on this net have any copies of the
work, whether construction notes or schematics, that Ernie Mason, W6IQY
(SK), did?  Ernie was my Elmer, next door neighbor when I was very young,
and a life long family friend.  I have some notes and schematics that he
drew and I have two of his later SSB transceiver designs with no notes or
schematics, that his widow, Joye, passed along to me.  Joye is still alive
and I would like to tell her that I have located some of his design
documents.

I know that there were at least two and possibly four different versions of
the BC-453 conversion to a SSB transceiver.  The one with a 6146 was the
first one, and there may have been a later 6146 version.  Then there was a
version(s) with a 6DQ5 final.  Ernie was always frutzing with the design
trying to minimize parts.  I have a schematic of one of the 6DQ5 versions
and page 2 of (2) of the 6146 design.

If anyone is willing to loan me any of their source material I will be glad
to convert it to pdf files and upload it on my web site www.scr-274-n.info

73 -- Dean / WA6IKJ