[ARC5] crystal control receivers and transmitters

[john rose]

Thank you one and all. I just spent some quality time on my hands and knees going through my library. I have some of those articles. Also you can add a book "Novice and Technician Handbook" by William Orr and Donald Stoner. Step by step directions to setup both transmitter and receiver. Here too is a variant of the crystal on a box, I think a different, or at least more complex, circuit. My curiosity was roused as I have not seen this type of conversion done. And with Army blessings. Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:27:27 -0500
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Subject: Re: [ARC5] crystal control receivers and transmitters


  
    
  
  
         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 nothing much 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 thin out "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