[ARC5] "Q5er"

[Robert Nickels]

Wonder if any list member has built - or owned - one of Don Stoner W6TNS 
Q5er receivers based on a BC-453?    There were three that I know of 
that were all described in CQ publications: the Novice Q5er from Jan 
1956  the original SSB Q5er from Sept. 1956, and the 1959 update of the 
SSB Q5er in the Stoner SSB Handbook.

The term "Q5er" was adopted by those who fed the 455 kc IF output of 
their ham receivers into a BC-453 as a tunable IF but I'm talking about 
the articles by Don Stoner (which by the way, were standalone converters 
with plug-in connections to the 453, which only had the usual minimal 
conversion (AC power, phone jack, and gain control).

73, Bob W9RAN