[ARC5] Preped for Yardney?

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 19 Apr 2009 at 19:23, jcoward5452 at aol.com wrote:

> Hi Folks, Been watching this one .
> 
> 270374053760
> 
> Now gone to a good home I'm sure.Does this look like a unit preped for
> a Yardney tuner?I can not imagine a Ham mod removeing the dial
> assembly. There was a Yardney spot tuner assembly available recently
> and I wonder if receivers were contracted to accept the tuner and then
> some second party i.e. the Navy then installed the tuner.
>  Any thoughts,comments?

Those have been modified by....possibly the U.S. Navy...for 
the Yardney Spot Tuner, which (I think) was called the 
Control Box C-131.

Mike Hanz's site, www.aafradio.org, has a document 
describing it.

The trouble is that the fellow who is selling them (he says 
he has 12 of them NIB) thinks that the small dial under the 
lid for the remote control box IS the dial for the receiver, 
and all one has to do is to remove the aluminum plate from 
the front of the receiver and install that.

He is not willing to take correction from anyone who knows 
better either, although I tried.  A waste of time.

Ken Gordon W7EKB