[ARC5] crystal control receivers and transmitters

[gordon white]

      At the time I had the schematic. Best I can recall, after 48 years 
or so, is I sent a copy of it to CQ. Possibly they did not have room for 
it. I do recall the crystal controlled receivers, but my paperwork for 
that time has long since disappeared. Lucky I still have the articles, 
which are in the bound volumes of CQ on my shelves. I have many A.R.C. 
manuals, etc. but none of my manuscripts. I retained a lot of the 
photos, but they, too, have disappeared. I wrote a piece in the 1980s 
for the AOPA Pilot magazine and the photos probably, to my regret, did 
not come back. I think that piece ran in 1984. Might be of interest if 
you could find a copy. I do have some large schematics of the standard 
issue receivers, in fact I know where those are. Probably some other 
diagrams, etc. Still have some bankers' boxes of A.R.C. corporate 
records, but nothingmuch on the NRL papers I found in their library. The 
Signal Corps long ago moved out of the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria 
where I found a lot - unfortunately, much of what I saw was subsequently 
shredded by the bureaucrats.

     I had prototypes of the crystal-controlled receivers. They went to 
the National Air & Space Museum in the 1980s.

     It is possible someone could look in the Naval Research Lab 
archives. Libraries do tend to squirrel things away, but I am no longer 
living in the Washington, DC area.

     Incidentally, I continue to be amazed at how this group has grown 
and thrived. Being now 79, I am beginning to thinout "stuff." I like to 
look at some of the Command gear, as I still consider it quite elegant 
for its time, but one of these days I am going to go to E-Bay....   
Right now I am busy preparing 5,000+ blueprints of American racing cars 
and engines, 1919 - 1976, to donate to the Henry Ford Museum.

  - Gordon Eliot White