[ARC5] On Hacking

[Geoff]

Quite a few transmitters were put on 20M in my area of NYC/LI in the 50's 
and I worked several that were used for 10M mobile AM during their evening 
commuting hours.
160 was also popular for commuters but dont recollect if any were the ARC-5 
category.

Maybe with all the high tech RF industries in the area the tech skills were 
a lot higher than the typical rural ham. I know some of the stuff I see at 
the hamfests around here and up in Maine are best described as YUK!



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
To: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:51 PM
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.
>
> Ken W7EKB
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