[ARC5] Added 6F6 audio stage.

[J. Forster]

Right on!

Change a few words and it applies to ARC-5 Tx's also.

-John

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> OK... I confess.
>
> I think I *do* understand why people chain-sawed extra
> audio stages into mil rigs, and I've already illustrated it,
> but I will again because I'm a meany.
>
> 1.  A cool and lovely fall morning in Chicago, 1961,
> which is about to turn ugly.... very ugly.
> Doofuss #1, with no understanding of the original circuit
> nor any inclination to find out about it, hooks-up an 8-ohm
> speaker to a 4000-ohm output.
> *Surprise!*   He gets low audio.
>
> 2.  Doofuss #1:  "Why it's just like my buddy Clem said-
> them military engine-ears don't know nothin'!  I'm a
> Cornditional Class by God an' I know more than Marconi!"
>
> 3.  Out comes the chainsaw-
> "Waaa-wub-wub-wub-wrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...."
>
> 4.  In goes some half-baked, upside-down "audio amplifier"
> with 87% harmonic distortion and a junk-box output
> transformer which, by the way, *still* doesn't match
> the old speaker (including bonus moth holes)
> taken from a junked Philco.
>
> 5.  The poor, mangled radio, instead of delivering .5 watts
> of nice, clean audio, now delivers
> .75 watts of nasty, distorted audio.  Such genius!
> In fact, Doofuss #1 is so proud of his "craftsmanship,"
> he writes an article for CQ magazine,
> which publishes it to a waiting world.
>
> 6.  Doofuss 2, 3, 4 etc. read the short article-
> which is so much easier than reading boring old texts about
> how the stage was supposed to work-  and tell all their fellow
> Doofussi about the "wonderful modification improvements,"
> who parrot it forevermore, Amen.
>
> 7.  For the next 5 generations
> (or until the supply of doomed radios runs out),
> where ever soldering irons are heated,
> from sea to shining sea,
> if one listens in the wee morning hours,
> one can hear:
> "Waaa-wub-wub-wub-wrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!"
>
> OK.... that's really what I think
> is behind the audio "improvements."
>
> But I don't think I'll write about it.
> Because Doofuss-1286 and Doofuss-1342
> will get mad and call me nasty names.
>
> 73 DE Dave AB5S
>
>
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