[ARC5] QST articles.

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

I received my latest issue of QST magazine Friday and 
read the two articles in question on Saturday.

I find both articles to be not significantly different from 
similar articles published in the various ham magazines and 
in those Surplus Conversion Manuals of the period.

Most significantly, the article on the conversion of the 
transmitters continues the original serious error of cranking 
the coupling control to max and connecting a 50 ohm 
antenna to the antenna connector.

I am going to write a letter to QST magazine with the 
corrected information I have here which was, first, given to 
me by David Stinson, and secondly, by the fellow who 
wrote a recent article in ER on the same subject (I have 
momentarily forgotten his name and call).

I will mention both David and the other fellow in my letter, 
and I hope that both will give me permission to quote them, 
and/or to use their information.

I will also contact the author of the QST article, Jim Hanlon, 
and ask him whether or not the ARRL did not publish part 
of his original article.

If anyone here can give me any further advice or ideas on 
this matter I would appreciate hearing from you.

In case anyone here doesn't understand this, I have always 
had the highest regard for the "ARC-5" rigs, and the 
engineers who designed them, and I guess I personally 
resent them being disparaged in any way, and so I am 
going to do something about this, if possible.

Ken Gordon W7EKB