[ARC5] 10 meter BC-454 - more

[Leslie Smith]

Hello Ken,
I watched the entire process of how you put this set on 10m with morbid
fascination.
I tried to follow the suggestions made by different members as they
posted "their" solution to the various problems you described.
'Tis useful to read what others think about problems you found, and
different approaches to solving them.

One point I take from this saga is that "book knowledge" is quite
different from "bench knowledge".
I will never ever read the process you described here in ANY text-book -
but without this knowledge your 10m conversion would not succeed.
Interesting, isn't it - that success only comes from your own effort.

Next, David observed that many conversions were begun but only a few
were successful.
That says something about the degree of skill needed to work at the
bench (on any project).
That says something about a need to PROPERLY test work when it's
supposedly "finished".
Speaking generally, I think tradesmen and engineers were more patient,
properly critical and did a better job "back then" than we do now.
If the "command" receivers were plastic rubbish, would we admire them
after 70 years? - as we do now.
Part of their appeal depends on a simply job VERY well done.

These are some ideas that are in my mind as a result of your hard work.
Well done!  Thank you for your effort.

73 from Australia

  Leslie Smith
  vk2bcu at operamail.com


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013, at 5:36, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> On 14 Feb 2013 at 13:27, gordon white wrote:
> 
> > If you find instability at 28 mc, think what it must have been like to
> > design the layout of the two tuneable vhf receivers, or the R-28, or
> > the 190 channel AN/ARN-30 receivers.
> 
> It must have been an absolute nightmare.
> 
> As I have repeatedly said, I regard ARC engineers as geniuses.
> 
> Ken W7EKB
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