[ARC5] Cost of sets - 1950 and 2010

[Leslie Smith]

Hello John!
Hello list-members!

Let's scale John's costs.
Assume the higher value for a set:  $8.00 or equal to 8.00/0.29 
=27 gallons of "gas".  Here in Australia, petrol (very similar to "gas") costs 1.25/Litre (with a whopping government tax component) and there are 4.5L per gallon.  This makes those earlier command sets worth $75 to $150.  

The killer for me, is postage.

Les  


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
> To: W9RAN at oneradio.net, "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment." <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Cool acquisition (not for the squeamish)
> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:14:35 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> 
> When ARC-5 were $4 to $8, remember gas was $0.29/gallon and a burger $0.19.
> 
> They were not cheap. They just appear cheap as a result of high inflation
> due to governmental misconduct.
> 
> -John
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> >   Last weekend was the Peoria Superfest, where some buddies and I have
> > been getting together for a big cook-out and gabfest as well.   One of
> > them has taken on the chore of helping a widow dispose of the estate of
> > a local SK, and included in the pile of stuff were a half-dozen  sundry
> > ARC-5 transmitters and receivers.  Most had been "hammified" to  a
> > greater or lesser extent - only one looked to be original.  But my
> > attention was drawn instead to one that was REALLY hacked-up, but
> > immediately recognizable to the "trained eye".
> >
> > It was a nearly-intact version of the W2EWL "Cheap and Easy SSB"
> > transmitter that was featured in the ARRL Sideband Handbook that I've
> > been studying lately.   Of course I immediately acquired it, as early
> > SSB is an area of great interest to me.   When this article was written
> > the author noted that the price of the BC-458 was "from $3.95 to $7.95",
> > so it's understandable how this was an attractive value for a
> > homebrewer, although we'd consider it heresey today.  The first step was
> > to strip the chassis of all parts except for the 1626 oscillator and the
> > final tube sockets...
> >
> > (Graphic image alert!)  I've posted some pictures at:
> > http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v652/ranickel/Cheap%20and%20Easy%20SSB/
> >
> > I'm tickled to actually find one of these already built and very
> > restorable, as I'd feel guilty stripping out even a basket case BC-458,
> > and it would be  a real challenge to find the audio transformers and
> > phase-shift network to try to build one from scratch today.
> >
> > 73, Bob W9RAN
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