[ARC5] On Hacking

[Glen Zook]

One might forget the TVI "improvements" that were necessary, especially in urban and suburban locations, to keep one's neighbors from storming the castle like was done to Doctor Frakenstein!
 
Glen, K9STH


Website:  http://k9sth.com


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 From: Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] On Hacking
 
On 16 Oct 2012 at 9:39, J. Forster wrote:

> All right, you proponents of 'ham improvements' to ARC-5 gear:

I doubt if any of us would have considered what we did to mil surplus gear 
"back in the day" "improvements" at all. I know I sure thought that the 
"improvements" I saw in many of the ham magazines of the time not worth 
the effort.

> Give us actual, documented examples of a ham modifications that
> actually improved the performance of the radios.

I certainly don't remember any at all from the time.

> And I mean something serious that was not a mere accomodation for ham
> convenience, like bandspread, or a different output transformer to
> drive a speaker, or an AC supply.

Those were the only ones that really made the gear useful to us.

Everyone I knew at the time believed firmly in the minimalist approach: 
power it some way and use it as is. What was good enough for the military 
was certainly good enough for most of us.

The only real improvement I can visualize, now, to WWII mil gear are in the 
areas of detectors and AGC circuits for receivers: nothing, for transmitters.