[ARC5] "Junk" M y Foot (Was: PT boat....)

[wb3fau55 at neo.rr.com]

I beg  to differ with you Dave, on the DX-100.  No, the VFO was not real stable,  but it  had a  real beefy  power supply.  I did actually key  mine into a  dummy  load  for 24 hours one time @110watts out.
It  survived just  FB.  73s Russ.
---- Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell at gmail.com> wrote: 
> On 06/29/2013 05:17 PM, David Stinson wrote:
> > OK.... I've been biting my tongue.  And biting.  And biting.
> > But I've had just about enough of people scoffing and calling the 
> > early WWII radio equipment "junk."
> > The engineers deserve more respect than that.
> > I have this equipment and operate it as originally designed. GF/RU.   
> > SCR-183. SCR-274N.  ATA/ARA.  AN/ARC-5.  ATB/ARB.  TCS. Australian 
> > AR8/AT5.  Half a dozen others.
> >
> >   In the missions for which they were designed,
> >  * which was NOT DXing on the ham bands, *
> >   they were expertly engineered, superbly crafted   and performed with 
> > excellence-   better than anything anyone else   in the entire world 
> > had to offer at the time.
> >
> > They were never designed to be "ham" rigs and comparing them to such 
> > is a stretch.
> > But I'll tell you this- You take your pick of 1950
> > and 1960s mid-range commercial "ham" gear-  Halliscappers, Hammer-on, 
> > Greasekit, Swan, Johnson etc. and compare any of the above radios
> > *run as they were designed*,
> > watt-for-watt and frequency-for-frequency,
> > by stability, audio quality, reliability and durability and these 
> > early Mil rigs will run rings around the commericial "ham " stuff 
> > available in 1950.
> > I like my National receivers, but in their "stock" condition, I've got 
> > to chase stations all over the dial.
> > Put a *properly run* BC-348 or TCS on WWV
> > and leave it for a day.  Come back and it will still be
> > within a KC of where you left it.
> > Put a book on the key of a stock DX-100 and walk away for a day- see 
> > what's left in the smoking ruin.   I could key-down a BC-375 and walk 
> > away for a week.
> > And unlike the DX-100, the 375 will stay somewhere
> > close to where I put it.
> >
> > "Junk" my foot!  Hmph!
> >
> > Dave S.
> Gosh Dave,
> 
> Tell us how you *really* feel...
> 
> I don't have all the mil surplus toys you have. But I put my RAK on a 
> nearby NDB at 359 kc (GYG) one night after it had been on several hours. 
> A short while later I turned it off. Two days later I turned it back on 
> and after a few seconds...there was GYG! It takes a few seconds for the 
> tubes to warm up. My solid state fancy radios can match that. But they 
> can't really beat it. The RAK isn't really ON until the heaters heat.
> 
> Playing with "Junk" is too cool. I wonder where the pretty radios with 
> their proprietary parts will be in 70 years.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Bill  KU8H
> ______________________________________________________________
> ARC5 mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/arc5
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:ARC5 at mailman.qth.net
> 
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html