[ARC5] Surplus Schematis Handbook... oops

[Mike Morrow]

John wrote:

> Sorry...  I didn't realize Scribd registratiuon is not free, but costs $10.
>
> I really cannot give, and have not given, out the FTP site as it was given
> to me in confidence as a personal favor. It's not mine to give.

Pardon me if I break the code of silence on this.  :-)

Anyone can find this book and view it free, and even change the size of the
schematics within for better legibility.  Just go to:

  http://www.scribd.com/doc/62315945/Grayson-Surplus-Schematics-Handbook-1960

What you won't be able to do for free is download it or print it out.

Bew warned...this book is one of the most stupidly composed and edited works
in all ham radio history...and that was quite an achievement!

You'll find subjects listed in the index titled differently when you get to
the associated page.

You'll find almost every schematic diagram of complex sets crammed illegibly
in to about 70 percent of the size of a letter-size page, while the rest of
the page accommodates a few valueless comments by the editor.

You'll find the SCR-274-N and AN/ARC-5 mixed together incoherently.

You'll find total BS accounts, like how BC-375 "design engineers responsible
almost had heart attacks when they received an ARC-5 for test comparison and
found it to be a fraction of the size and weight, infinitely more stable and
put out more power", with the evaluation summed up by "There are a few moderately
usable parts in the transmitter and the tuning units make nice cabinets."

I did not care for this book when I first got a copy in the mid-1960s.  Kenneth
Grayson (W2HDM) also wrote a surplus column in CQ beginning in early 1958 that
went on 'til the mid-1960s.  Like Roy Pafenberg (W2WKM) in 73 during the mid-1960s,
the articles often describe some interesting gear, but then proceed with a
fairly radical transmogrification of that gear which destroyed its military
heritage in favor of a ham make-over of minimal utility.

73,
Mike / KK5F