[ARC5] BCB receivers and BFOs.

[Bob Macklin]

The reason Fair Radio still has those BFO coils is you are one of the few 
people that needs them.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
To: "ARC-5 Mail List" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] BCB receivers and BFOs.


> On 19 Feb 2013 at 8:50, Ian Wilson wrote:
>
>> This is an interesting idea. I have a Gonset 3-band converter doing
>> nothing, and a setup that I built around a BC-946 for XYL to listen to
>> KNX (this worked perfectly, but has been supplanted by an advert-free
>> PBS station). The previous owner applied the usual mods but forgot to
>> rip out the BFO, so in combination with the Gonset might work OK. I
>> wonder what the stability of the converter is like....
>>
>> 73, ian K3IMW
>
> From what I understand of them, they work very well indeed.
>
> You were certainly lucky on your BC-946.
>
> However, as I pointed out here a few posts ago, Fair Radio Sales still has
> brand-new 239 KHz BFOs for those receivers for $7.50.
>
> I was amazed when I learned this.
>
> This may help some of us save one or more of those BC band receivers that
> have been hacked. There sure are enough of those hacked ones out there.
>
> Ken W7EKB
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